What bothers Socrates most about our democracy is a certain kind of instability, its tendency to be pulled between extremes of anarchy, between lawlessness and tyranny.

苏格拉底对我们民主最感困扰的是,不稳定性，倾向于失序两端,拉扯的特性，即介于目无法纪与专制之间。

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He also shows, however, that normal politics is, itself, dependent upon extraordinary politics, periods of crisis, anarchy, instability, revolution, where the normal rules of the game are suspended.

然而他也同时了解到常态政治，本身有赖于破例政治，诸如危机，失序，不稳定，革命等时期，当游戏的常态规范,遭搁置。

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The breaking of so much as a single law constitutes the essence of anarchy, constitutes the essence of lawlessness, it is a far-reaching argument for obedience to the law.

只要违反一条法律,即可构成失序的本体，混乱的本体，这是一个深远的申论,关于服从法律。

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