In it he asks "What is the intellectual quality that successful statesmen possess that distinguishes their knowledge "? from all other forms of rationality and knowledge?"

书中他提问,“何种智力特质,是成功政治家们所应具备,以使其知识有别于,所有其它种类的理性与知识,他的回答如下“

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Plato himself, remember, made a number of trips to Sicily to serve as the advisor to a king there, Dionysius, and all of these missions failed and left him deeply dispirited.

记不记得柏拉图自己，曾多次旅行到西西里岛,从事国王顾问的工，Dionysius王，他所有的使命都未竟成功,并使他深深感到气馁。

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The word in Greek is othismos, and if that was successful as it might be, it could knock down the lines of the front guys and get the other side running.

用希腊语来讲就是"othismos",如果这样的推搡战术成功,就能击溃方阵的前排,使敌方溃不成军

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