that we understand how markets work better, that we... ? or that we stand back and let them?

或者说我们了解市场如何才能更好地运作。,而应当放手让市场自我调节？

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Will the best regime be a small closed society ? that through generations has made a supreme sacrifice towards self-perfection? Think of that.

最优的政体会是一个小型封闭的社会吗,经过多代之后，已壮烈地牺牲于自我完善之中,想想这个问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

I think that you don't really have self possession if you choose to live in a society because you cannot just discount the people around you.

我认为如果你选择生活在社会中,就不可能完全地自我拥有,因为你不能无视其他人的存在。

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He's not over: "Zealous of their own liberties but trampling on those of others, generous, candid and without attachment or pretensions to any religion but that of their own heart."

他还没说完,"他们热爱自由,却肆意践踏他人的自由,他们慷慨,直率,崇尚自我,不沉迷于也不虚伪地信仰任何宗教"

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We've talked about a book written by Berle and Means who said that shareholders are so dispersed that they have really no control over a company and boards of directors are self-perpetuating.

我们曾提到过一本,写的书，Berle，and，Means,书中作者提到股东们过于分散,以至于他们对公司失去了控制权,但董事会却要长久地自我续存下去。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And, in a rare moment of sort of personal self-reflection or self-reference, he notes somewhat drolly that the novelty of his ideas will make it difficult for them to find an audience.

虽然他很少对自己的思想,进行自我反思或自我参照，但他还是自嘲地写道,那些新奇的思想会让它们,很难找到读者。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The city and soul analogy could be seen then as an attempt to understand how societies reproduce themselves, and how they shape citizens who again in turn shape the societies in which they inhabit.

城市与灵魂的比拟,可以视为是尝试了解,社会如何自我复制，及形塑公民,后者相对地,也在形塑他们所居住的社会。

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