He's spoken of anthropomorphically, so that we can capture his interaction with human beings. This is the only way, Kaufman says, you can write in any meaningful sense about the interaction between God and humanity. So he has to be anthropomorphized.

上帝像人一样说话，这样我们就能和他交流,这是唯一和上帝对话的方式，你可以从各个方面写下上帝与人类的相互作用,因此上帝必须富有人性。

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That's the way Socrates begins this dialogue, or that's the way Plato has Socrates begin it.

那是苏格拉底开始这场对话的方式，或说是柏拉图让苏格拉底开始的方式。

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It should be taught from the universities and from this conversation will be sprinkled upon the people. Hobbes' hope, like that of all the great political philosophers, was to be a kind of legislator for mankind.

通过对话交流的方式,对他人起到潜移默化的作用,像古往今来那些伟大的政治哲学家们一样,霍布斯也希望自己在某一天，成为人类行为规范的立法者。

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