Just to carry on some of the highlights of that story, that tells us a lot about the society.

继续讲故事里面的几个要点,这反映很多社会现实

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It was a threat to hierarchy and the South became quite distinctively a very hierarchical society more on that in just a second.

民主对阶级制度是一大威胁,相对于北方,南方的阶级制度,更根深蒂固

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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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It's a contest just like everything else in Greek society and there's a tremendous amount of pride that goes into victory and a tremendous amount of shame that goes into defeat.

这种竞争与希腊社会中,其他斗争一样,胜者王,享受无穷荣耀,败者寇,受千万人耻笑

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In order for a more or less just society to remind me of justice itself, so that I can start thinking about the nature of justice itself, I have to somehow have already been acquainted with perfect justice.

如果一个较为正义的社会,能让我想到公正本身,能让我思考公正的本质,我起码需要,对完美的正义有所认识

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Yes. 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.

是的，我认为如果你生活在社会中,就不可能完全拥有自主权,因为你不能无视其他人的存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

We have a habit in this society to think that individual rights, when they drafted the Bill of Rights, was just laid down for us and it's just traveled through time and here they are.

在这个社会中我们习惯于思考人权问题,创始人们起草了《权利法案》,这份草案被我们所珍藏的,历尽世事变迁仍在这里

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