Could Plato have imagined such a regime?

柏拉图能预见这样的政权吗
I think in many ways he can and he did.

我认为他很大程度上可以也不可以
In one sense, the Republic, and I've given some indications of

一方面我已暗示过《理想国》
this today, seems to be the most anti-democratic book ever written.

今天说的似乎是有史以来最反民主的
Its defense of philosophic kingship

它对哲学王权的辩护
is itself a direct repudiation of Athenian democracy.

它自身对雅典民主制的拒斥
Its conception of justice, minding one's own business,

它的正义观念仅关涉个人自身
is a rejection of the democratic belief that citizens

它反对的民主是公民
have sufficient knowledge to participate in the offices of government.

拥有完全的知识能力以参与政府服务职能
To be sure, Athenian democracy is not American democracy.

当然雅典政治不是美国式政治
Plato thought of democracy as a kind of rule

柏拉图认为民主是某种统治方式
by the many that he associated with

并多数连结到