But for Aristotle it is not the liberty of the individual so much as the functioning or functional well-being of the city that is the highest priority.

但对亚里士多德而言,并非个人自由,而是城市运作中,或能运作的福利,才是最要优先考虑的事。

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Ads in newspapers, like this one in Charleston, would read, "Negroes wanted. I am paying the highest cash prices for young and likely Negroes, those having good front teeth and being otherwise sound."

报纸上的广告,比如查尔斯顿市的这一则,是这么写的,"诚购黑奴,本人愿付最高价格,购买年轻可靠之黑奴,需有整洁的牙齿以及悦耳的声音"

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The one point of view takes the philosophic life, the examined life, to be the one most worth living; the other takes the political life, the life of the citizen engaged in the business of deliberating, legislating, making war and peace as the highest calling for a human being.

一个观点为采纳哲思生活，经反省的人生才值得活;,另一个观点为采纳政治生活，公民的生命并入,商议，立法事务，宣战与追求和平,成为最高的人性召唤。

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