"There is a strong sense of disquiet, I think perhaps among some there is a sense of betrayal, the social contract has been sundered,".

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That remains not only the fundamental question for Hobbes, but for the entire, at least for the entire social contract tradition that he helped to establish.

这已不仅仅停留在,霍布斯的基本问题上，从整体来说，至少是从霍布斯帮助建立的,整个社会契约的传统上。

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Right. You didn't sign the social contract. I didn't sign it.

对，你并没有签社会契约，我也没有。

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Or, if you don't believe Spinoza, if you don't believe his authority is sufficient, consider someone who you'll be reading in a couple of weeks, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from the Social Contract.

或者，假如你不相信斯宾诺莎，假如你不信,他的权威性，那么想一想几星期之后,你们将要读到的一个人，让·雅克·卢梭，在《社会契约论》中。

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You can prove that, in fact, if you were writing a contract, if there was a social planner you'd work more.

事实上你会发现,如果有书面合同,或者有个规划师的话人们会超常发挥

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All of our texts that we will read--the Republic the Politics the Prince the Social Contract have different views on the qualities of statecraft and what are those qualities necessary to found and maintain states that we will be considering.

我们所有将阅读的教材中，包括《理想国》,《政治论》，《君主论》，《民约论》,都有不同的权术特性观点,哪些特性是建立及维持国家所必需,我们都将加以思量。

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