When Aristotle says that man is a political animal by nature, he is doing more than simply asserting just a truism or just some platitude.

当亚里士多德说,人类天生是政治动物，他的主张,不只是老生常谈,或是陈腔滥调。

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Aristotle says this is a category mistake because poets don't imitate reality.

那么我说你从归类上就错了,因为诗人从不仿造现实。

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We only deliberate Aristotle says over things where there is some choice.

亚里士多德说,我们仅在事情还有选择时才商议。

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Aristotle in his Politics says this: "As man is the best of the animals when perfected, so he is the worst of all when he is divided away from the law and justice."

亚里士多德在他的《政治学》中说,"完美的人是最好的动物,但如果他与法律和公正剥离开来,那也会是最糟糕的动物"

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So what follows, in one sense, that when Aristotle says that man is by nature a political animal and the city is by nature, the city can never be a universal state.

这响应了，亚里士多德所说,人类天生是政治动物,而城市是自然的演变，城市永远不能是一座万国之城。

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Poets don't imitate, says Aristotle, things as they are.

现实该什么样就是什么样。

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Second Aristotle understands the purpose of leisure when he says the end of the regime is peace and the purpose of peace is leisure.

再者，亚里士多德了解,安逸的目的,当他说政体的最终目的是和平,而和平的目的是安逸。

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