Every polity seeks its own advantage against others, making relations between states a condition of unremitting war of all against all.

每一个政体都在追寻自身的利益,而非他者，国家间的联盟,是一种全面战争的条件，持续性的永恒对抗。

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It only becomes a question of knowing the object, of knowing it in and for itself, in its own terms, and not at all necessarily of learning from it, of being spoken to by it.

它仅仅是了解这个对象，了解这个对象本身，不一定是从对象中学习。

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The classical, Gadamer argues, is that which doesn't just speak to its own historical moment but speaks for all time, speaks to all of us in different ways but does speak to us--that is to say, does proffer its claim to speak true. The classical can do that.

伽达默尔表示，古典，不是只对自己所处的历史时刻适用,而是任何时期都适用，以不同的方式对我们适用,但确实对我们适用，也就是说，确实可以提供真相，古典可以做到这一点。

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