so to speak, detached intellectuals.

并不是隐世知识分子
Plato undertook three long and dangerous voyages

柏拉图三度冒险渡海至西西里岛
to Sicily in order to advise the King Dionysius.

只为向国王狄奥尼修斯献策
Aristotle famously was a tutor of Alexander the Great.

亚里士多德有指导亚历山大大帝的著名史实
Machiavelli spent a large part of his career

马基雅维里职涯的大部分
in the foreign service of his native Florence,

都在本土佛罗伦萨外交部门服务
and wrote as an advisor to the Medici.

而且是梅迪奇家族的顾问
Hobbes was the tutor to a royal household who followed the King

霍布斯是皇室家庭的家庭教师
into exile during the English Civil War.

该户人家于英国内战时随英王流亡
And Locke was associated with the Shaftsbury Circle who also was

洛克则与沙夫茨伯里等人有联系
forced into exile after being accused of

该户后来也被迫流亡
plotting against the English King.

因被指控策划谋反英王