Consider one thinker, and I will, I'm going to read you a short passage and I'm going to come back to this again later in the semester, from Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, chapter 31 of Leviathan, where Hobbes gives us a very personal statement about his intention in writing this book.

细想以下这一位思想家，我将朗读一小段文章,然后在学期后段,再回到这个主题来，这是取自贺伯斯的《利维坦》,第，31，章，贺伯斯提供了十分贴切的陈述,关于他撰写本书的动机。

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Consider this passage in Book VIII of the Republic that I encourage you to read but is not on your assigned list.

细想出现在《理想国》第，VIII，册的以下这一段,我鼓励大家阅读,虽然它并未列在我指定的清单上。

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