in any number of departments at Yale,

在耶鲁的任何部门被授予终身职位
whereas Socrates could not have applied to

然而苏格拉底却申请不到
have been a teaching assistant.

教学助理
These differences conceal others.

这些差异隐藏了其它的差异
For Plato, it would seem, the study of politics was always

对于柏拉图看来政治学的研究经常
bound up with deeply philosophical and speculative questions,

与深奥的哲学推测性问题
questions of metaphysics,

形而上学的问题
questions of the structure of the cosmos.

以及宇宙构成的问题关系密切
What is the soul?

什么是灵魂
What is the soul about?

灵魂关于什么
Aristotle appears from the beginning to look more like what we would

亚里士多德从一开始就看起来更像是
think of as a political scientist.

我们平时眼中的政治学者