than to shape and educate citizens and future statesmen.

更针对于塑造和教育市民跟未来的政治家
His works

他的著作
seem less theoretical in the sense of constructing abstract models of political life

比起理论上塑造抽象的政治生模型
than advice-giving,

更偏向给予建议
in the sense of serving

从服务的意义上说
as a sort of civic-minded arbiter of public disputes.

像是种对公共争端热心的仲裁者
Unlike Socrates, who famously in

不像苏格拉底的著名
his image in Book VII of the Republic,

他在《理想国》中的影像
compared political life to a cave,

将政治生活比作洞穴
and unlike the Apology where Socrates

也不像苏格拉底在辩护中
tells his fellow citizens that their lives,

告诉他的同胞们他们的生活
because unexamined, are not worth living,

因为未经核实而不值得存活