In the course of this inquiry, he concluded that

在探究的过程中他总结出
not only Hegel and Marx were important in that particular genealogy,

在这一系统中不仅黑格尔和马克思是重要的
but this went back to Plato as well, Plato principally.

柏拉图也是重要的而且他占了绝大部分
Plato, who Popper accuses in a passionate,

波普尔激烈地指责帕拉图
albeit not very well written book,

虽然这不是本写的很好的书
accuses Plato of being the first to establish a kind of totalitarian dictatorship.

他指责柏拉图第一个建立了某种极权主义的独裁地位
Is that true?

这是真的吗
Plato's Republic is, we will discover as you read,

在你阅读的时候我们会发现柏拉图的《理想国》是
a republic of a very special kind.

一种非常特殊的共和国
It is not a regime like ours devoted to maximizing individual liberties,

它不像我们的致力于最大化地实现个人自由的政体
but it is one that puts the education of its citizens,

但它将对市民的教育
the education of its members, as its highest duty.

对其城市成员的教育作为最高职责