That is to say, someone with sufficient political audacity to create their own authority, who has not simply received it from the past, but to create their own authority.

也就是说,他或她必是一位具有足够政治勇气,且能创造其自身威信的人，而非单纯只是接受过去的遗产，更是创造其自身的威信。

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In political philosophy it is never a sufficient answer to answer a question with a statement " "because Plato says so " " or "because Nietzsche says so."

对于政治哲学而言,答案永远都嫌不充足,无法仅用一段陈述来回答一个问题,“因为柏拉图如是说“,“因为尼采如是说“

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And it is only the creation of the sovereign for Hobbes, endowed or possessed with absolute power, that is sufficient to put an end to the condition of perpetual uncertainty, anxiety and unrest that is the case of the natural condition.

对霍布斯而言,只有给君主，赋予绝对的权力，人们才足以结束,对这漫长的未知的恐惧，和对不安生活状态的疑虑,这才是现有条件下我们该做的。

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