来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：政治哲学导论 第5集》
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That seems to be what Socrates is suggesting.这似乎是苏格拉底想要暗示的 -
Right, that's what he's getting at.这也是他所指的 -
One way of thinking about理解这个城市和个体 -
the metaphor of city and soul together的暗喻的一条途径便是 -
is to think of it as a particular kind of causal hypothesis,就是把它看做一种因果假设 -
about the formation of both individual character and一种关于人体构造和政治架构 -
political institutions.的假设 -
In this reading of the city/soul analogy这种把城与人的比喻 -
as a kind of causal relation,看做一种因果关系的解读 -
maintains the view that as individuals we both shape and这支持了个体的人可以塑造 -
determine the character of our societies,决定社会性格的观点 -
and that those societies in term shape同时 社会也在塑造