That passage is often taken to be, the beginning of chapter 15, the essence of Machiavelli and realism, a kind of Realpolitik, as it were.

第，15，章开头的这一段落，常被解读为，马奇亚维利与现实主义的精髓，一种现实政治，其实它就是。

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We may not accept their answers and it's very likely that we do not but their questions are often put with a kind of unrivaled clarity and insight.

我们可能不接受他们的解答,我们可能接受才怪,但他们的问题常隐含一种,无敌的清晰与独到见解。

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With I should say the possible exception of the economists who often will believe that economic motives and transactions provide the key to all possible human behaviors.

知识分支当中,可能的例外是经济学家,他们常认为,是经济动机与交易,决定了所有可能的人类行为。

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How can the opposite often result?

事如何常与愿违？

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Aristotle takes his stand from within politics and the regime of which he is a part. Of course we all know contemporary political scientists are not neutral. They frequently insert their views values we call them value judgments we call them.

亚里士多德的立场却是置身于,政治与政体之内,让自己成为其中的一部份，当然,我们都知道当今的政治科学,并非如此中立，他们常硬加入,他们自身的观点与价值，他们的价值判断。

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