来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：政治哲学导论第6集第6集》

requires friends, comrades, conversations.

需要朋友同仁和对话
It is not something that can simply be pursued in isolation.

它不是单靠自己可以达成的
Socrates understands that those who want to

苏格拉底认为那些想要
reform others must reform themselves,

改变别人的人首先要改变自己
but many who've tried to imitate him have been less careful.

但是很多试图模仿他的人都不太细心
It is easy to confuse, as many people have done,

很多人很容易都可以提出质疑
the Republic, with a recipe for tyranny.

《理想国》是暴君的秘诀
The twentieth century, and even the beginnings of our own,

二十世纪甚至到了本世纪初叶
is littered with the corpses of those

到处充满了这种残余
who have set themselves up as philosopher-kings,

他们将自己看成哲学王
Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Khamenei,

列宁, 斯大林, 希特勒, 毛泽东, 哈梅内伊,
to name just some of the most obvious.

仅举几个最明显的例子