The ambition in some ways to unite philosophy and politics has been a recurring dream of political philosophy ever since Plato.

企图结合,哲学与政治的想法,一直是政治哲学永不中断的梦想,打从柏拉图开始即是如此。

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So you can see why it would be very natural for all sorts of ties to unite these colony and mother city.

因此你们就能理解,是什么把殖民地和母邦自然地联系在一起

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What Alexander had wanted to do was to take all these different peoples, who spoke different languages and had different customs, and use a Greek layer to sort of unite his empire overall.

亚历山大的理想是，让所有说不同语言，不同习俗的民族，用一种希腊文化统一帝国。

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