they're more modest in ascribing priority to any particular

对于这种归咎于知识的分支上的优先权
branch of knowledge.

考虑得更加的庄重了
With, I should say, the possible exception of the

但我想说经济学家却是例外的
economists, who often will believe that economic motives and

他们一直相信经济动机是导致
transactions provide the key to all possible human behaviors.

全部人类活动的关键
Who knows, maybe they're right, but Aristotle would deny it.

也许他们是对的但亚里士多德却否认
For Aristotle, however, politics has a priority to

对于亚里士多德无论怎样政治
all the others, because as he has argued,

是最优先的对此他提出了理由
man is the political animal.

人类是为政治而生的动物
To be a political animal means first to possess speech or reason that

想要为政治而生意味着要有演讲和理性
allows us to participate in a community or a way of life governed

的能力这能够允许我们去参加分享
by shared standards of justice and injustice.

正义与否的交流或生活方式