and it's very likely that we do not,

实际上我们也不可能
but their questions are often put with a kind of unrivaled clarity and insight.

但他们的疑问常隐含一种无与伦比的清晰和洞察力
The fact is that there are still people in the world,many people,

事实上世上仍有人很多人
who regard themselves as Aristotelians,

自诩为亚里士多德学派
Thomists, Lockeans, Kantians,

托马斯神学派洛克学派康德学派
even the occasional marxist can still be found in Ivy League universities.

甚至偶尔的马克思学派存在于常春藤联盟大学中
These doctrines have not simply been refuted, or replaced, or

这些学说没有被轻易驳倒替代或
historically superceded; they remain in many ways

淹没于历史洪流它们在很多方面
constitutive of our most basis outlooks and attitudes.

维持我们最基本的看法和态度
They are very much alive with us today, right.

它们至今仍活跃在我们的思维中对吧
So political philosophy is not just some kind of strange historical

所以政治哲学不是奇怪的历史附属
appendage attached to the trunk of political science;

依附于政治科学这一主干