I believe that these are the foundational moments of theorizing and that if you're going to teach anything like a survey, you've got to derive the rest of it from whatever the moment I happen to subscribe to might be."

我相信这些都对建立理论非常重要,如果你想教概论之类的东西，那么其它的部分都得是我赞同的才行“

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Their distinctive customs manners laws habits moral dispositions and sentiments and Aristotle's constitutional theorizing begins by asking a simple question.

意即他们特有的习惯，风俗，法律，习性,道德意向及社群观感,而亚里士多德的本质理论化过程,是透过提问一个简单的问题。

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