In any case, whatever one makes of those examples, Machiavelli seems to be challenging important aspects of the classical conceptions that we've been talking about up to this point.

不管人们如何理解这些例子，马基雅维利似乎正在挑战,我们至此一直在讨论着的古典概念的,重要方面。

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