President Obama,in his weekly address, is calling on the Senate to give Judge Sotomayor a swift, rigorous and principled confirmation.

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Does this policy of principled disobedience, you might say vindicate or indict Socrates of the charge of corruption and impiety ? that has been brought against him?

这种原则性反抗的策略，可说是证明,或判定苏格拉底,腐化与亵渎神明,罪名的证据吗？

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When he says that his way of life has been private, he means that he has pursued a policy of, let's call it "the principled abstinence " from public life."

当他提到自己的生活方式是私密的时候，他所提的是他追求一种策略，我们可以称之为，“原则性疏离,公共生活“

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But this raises, I think, the central or a central point about Socratic citizenship or Socrates' view of citizenship, this kind of principled disobedience to the law, something like Thoreau's model of civil disobedience.

但这产生了，一个中心的观点,关于苏格拉底式的公民社会,或是苏格拉底对公民社会的看法，这种原则性的反抗法律，有点像梭罗的,公民反抗模式。

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