来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：政治哲学导论 第10集 第10集》

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  to speak more precisely,
  更确切的说
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  the Christian empire.
  是基督教皇
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  The Holy Roman Empire, as it was known in the time of
  在马基雅维利的时代 神圣罗马帝国
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  Machiavelli, was the successor to the ancient Roman state,
  便是古罗马体制的继承者
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  the older Roman Empire.
  即古罗马帝国
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  Both of these empires had aspired to a kind of universality.
  这两个帝国都渴望一种普遍性
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  And this universality was given expression
  这种普遍性在但丁的
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  in Dante's famous treatise, De Monarchia,
  专著论君主政制中得到了诠释
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  of monarchy, that set out a model
  这种对君主制的讨论
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  for a universal Christian state,
  建立了一种普遍的基督制国家
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  based on the unity and oneness of the human race
  这种体制建立在基督王权
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  under a Christian ruler.
  对人类单一性和统一性的控制