All he tells us is that we are the polis animal by nature and that to achieve our ends, it will be necessary to live in a polis.

他只说到,我们是天生的城邦动物,为了达成目标，必需要住在城邦之中。

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All of our texts that we will read--the Republic the Politics the Prince the Social Contract have different views on the qualities of statecraft and what are those qualities necessary to found and maintain states that we will be considering.

我们所有将阅读的教材中，包括《理想国》,《政治论》，《君主论》，《民约论》,都有不同的权术特性观点,哪些特性是建立及维持国家所必需,我们都将加以思量。

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All of these three things, in my judgment, are necessary to understand how the polis came into being, how it came to be what it was, and how it came to fulfill and believe in these ideas that I have just been telling you about.

所有这三个事情,在我看来,对于了解城邦是如何产生,如何成型,以及如何实现,和验证那些我刚刚,告诉你们的理念,是不可或缺的

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