Only a small city, small enough to be governed by relations of trust, can be political, in Aristotle's sense of the term.

仅有一座小城，小到能由信任的关系来管治，才能称作是政治社会，这是以亚里士多德的标准看来。

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Many laws try to promote the virtue of citizens or try to give expression to the moral values of the society as a whole.

很多法律试图提高公民的品德,或者试图树立,整个社会的道德标准。

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But within all of these groups is an attempted try to get down something that's so fundamental, and we just have to safeguard. I'm thinking broadly in terms of social justice criteria, others may say human dignity. There're certain things we do to safeguard others' human dignity.

但在所有这些群体中都有一种努力,在尝试着记录下最根本的东西，而我们要做的就是维护，我在广泛思考着,社会正义的标准，其他人可能会说是人的尊严，有些事情,我们会做从而维护他人的尊严。

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One's from Burger King and one is from KFC, and when I show these to you-- we'll talk a lot about food marketing in the United States, because if you buy the premise that I laid out a few moments ago, that what we consider food and what we consider to taste good is pretty much a total social construction.

一个是汉堡王的,一个是肯德基的,在我播放这两个广告的同时,我们要讲下美国的食物市场营销策略,因为如果你买了我之前出的那本提纲,其中讲到了我们对待食物的态度,我们,判定食物好吃与否的标准是种社会意识

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The megalopsychos the gentleman whatever else he is is not a philosopher in the strict sense.

这种，Megalopsychos，绅士,以严格的标准看来并非哲学家,从社会学角度看来。

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Here's the line that Homer writes, they live without the Greek word is nomoi, which we would translate as laws, but before they become laws they are the customary norms of society, in other words, civilization.

荷马有如下描写,他们的的生活脱离于nomoi,我们可以将其翻译为法律,但是在这些成为法律之前,它们是社会约定俗成的标准,换言之,就是文明

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