The difference between the philosopher and the tyrant illustrate two very different conceptions of philosophy.

哲学家与暴君,之间的差别刻划出,两种非常不同的哲学概念。

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Of course, before doing so, he says, "you must call him first a tyrant."

当然，在叛乱或是弑君之前，你得确定你要诛杀的是一位暴君“

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A minority government of revolutionary Puritans had effectively taken control of the state. The radical Puritan Parliament voted to execute the tyrant -- what they considered to be the tyrant, King Charles I -- and to establish its own government.

清教徒革命者组建的少数政府成功的,控制了英国，激进的清教徒议会投票决定,处死暴君--他们认为是暴君的，国王查理一世--并组建自己的政府。

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He treats them like an absolute tyrant.

他残暴地对待他们

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When these tyrannies take place, they last for different periods of time, but when the tyrant is removed, what follows after that is, there is never again in that town a one-man rule of any kind.

当僭主统治步入历史舞台,它走过了很多历史时期,但当它寿终正寝之后,在那座城邦里再也没有出现过,任何形式的独裁者了

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This is the quality that Socrates regards as being possessed by every great political leader and statesman, but it is also clearly a quality possessed by every tyrant.

这是苏格拉底认为,每一位伟大政治领袖及政治家所,共同拥有的特质，但也明显是,每一位暴君所拥有的特质。

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And this is precisely the opposite of the tyrant who Plato describes as a person of limitless desires who lacks the most rudimentary kind of governance, namely self-control.

而这正是对比于专制,即柏拉图形容中,拥有无限欲望的人,他们缺少最基本的管理，或说自控。

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From reading of such books," Hobbes continues, "men have undertaken to kill their kings because the Greek and Latin writers in their books and discourses of policy make it lawful and laudable for any man to do so provided before he do it he call him a tyrant."

正是因为这些阅读，他们意识到他们可以弑杀他们的君王,因为希腊和拉丁作家们,在他们的书籍和演讲中宣称,任何人都可以合法地弑杀他们的暴君,而且他们的此举也将是值得赞赏的“

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