In the best regime if we were to inhabit such political philosophy would be unnecessary or redundant. It would wither away.

如果我们身处最优政体之中,压根不需要政治哲学,其亦显得累赘，而会逐渐消逝。

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What makes this enterprise difficult but also riveting is that moral and political philosophy is a story and you don't know where the story will lead.

这一过程会充满挑战又引人入胜,因为道德与政治哲学就好比一个故事,你不知道故事将会如何发展。

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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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