The two are open to persuasion, to consider alternatives, perhaps even radical alternatives, to the society that has nurtured them.

两人都愿接受劝说，并考虑替代性作法,或甚至是极端的替代方案，以改变哺育他们的社会。

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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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We even hear more than any single individual and then in the same text we also hear Aristotle praising the practice of ostracism that is to say exiling banishing those individuals deemed to be pre-eminent in any particular virtue or quality.

我们能听到比单一个体更多的思想,而在同一段落中，我也看到亚里士多德,赞美放逐的作法,即流放，放逐那些,可能会在某些美德与特质上,特别卓越的个体。

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Antiquity or tradition alone is no justification yet at the same time he seems to recognize that changes in law even when the result : is improvement are dangerous. He writes "It is a bad thing to habituate people to reckless dissolution of laws.

作为借口，但同时,他似乎也体认到法律修改,就算结果是改善,仍是很危险的作法，他写到,“让人民习惯于鲁莽的法律,崩溃是不好的事。

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