来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：政治哲学导论第5集》

as it were through a magnifying glass."

透过放大镜来看看正义吧
Let's view justice in the large sense.

让我们用更大的视角看它
Let us view justice in a city

让我们看看一座城市的正义
in order to help us understand what it is in an individual.

以便理解公正对个人的意义
And this idea

这种观点
that the city is essentially analogous to the soul,

这种城市在本质上与人相似的观点
that the city is like the soul,

城市与人心相似
is the central metaphor around which

这也是整部
the entire Republic is constructed.

理想国中最核心隐喻
It seems to be presented entirely innocuously,

这听起来无伤大雅
no one in the dialogue

所以在场没人反对
objects to it, yet everything else follows from

而接下来这个观点慢慢的展现出