So one thing you will quickly note is that there are no permanent answers in a study of political philosophy.

有一件你们会马上注意到的事,就是没有永恒的答案,可用以研究政治哲学。

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If you take a philosophy course, there'll be a couple of questions about dreams that you will wonder about.

如果你上过哲学课，就会知道几个关于梦境的问题,是我们很好奇的。

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What makes this enterprise difficult but also riveting is that moral and political philosophy is a story and you don't know where the story will lead.

这一过程会充满挑战又引人入胜,因为道德与政治哲学就好比一个故事,你不知道故事将会如何发展。

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Philosophy will never feel fully or truly at home in any particular society.

哲学永远不会感到完全的舒适自在,无论是在何种社会之中。

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The study of political philosophy often begins as this course will do also with the study of the great books or some of the great books of our field.

政治哲学研究的开始,就像这门课的作法,常起始于研究一些伟大的巨著,或是一些我们研究领域内的巨著。

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that expresses the will of the majority, the will of the greater number be rendered compatible with the needs of philosophy and the claims to respect ? only reason and a better argument?

众人意志的民主，及大多数人的意志,能够兼容,哲学需求,及尊重理性,及进阶辩论的诉求吗？

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