We should approach the book, in other words, not as we might a treatise, but as we might approach a work of literature or drama.

我们切入本书的角度，换句话来说，不应视其为论述，而是要将其视为,一部文学或戏剧作品。

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The work is not, in a sense, written simply as a sort of timeless philosophical treatise, but as a dramatic dialogue with a setting, a cast of characters and a firm location in time and place.

但本书的著作目的，不仅是,永恒的的哲学论述，更是戏剧性的对话，内含场景，人物,及一个确切时间与位置。

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