And each proposes to Socrates a test that he will have to pass in order to prove the value of justice and the just life.

每一个建议对苏格拉底都是一次必需通过的测试,以证明,正义与公正人生的价值。

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The Republic is a book about the regime and all later political philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato and that means that it must provide a series of variations so to speak on Plato's conception of the best regime.

理想国》是一本关于政体的书,之后所有的政治哲学都不过是一系列,对柏拉图的批注，也就是说，它必需提供,一系列的差异来解释,柏拉图概念中的最佳政体。

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