The Republic asks us, what would a city be like if it were ruled by Socrates or someone like him?

理想国》要我们考虑，城邦的面貌,如果它是由苏格拉底或像他的人所统治？

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Just so in fact the god seems to me to have set me upon the city as someone of this sort.

依此实据观来,上帝似已选中我,做为与城邦等齐的人。

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