Virtue means for him a kind of manly self-assertion, audacity, ruthlessness, a reliance on one's own arms and calculated use of cruelty to achieve one's ends.

美德对他而言,是一种具男子气概的自作主张，胆大，冷酷，自助，且还会算计使用残忍手段,来达致目标。

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Charity, or what he seems to have been thinking of as the selflessness of Christian love, is a virtue generous and capacious enough to encompass all of the others but faith, hope and chastity? "And the greatest of these is chastity"?

仁爱，或者,他认为的基督教无私的爱，是一种足够宽广，能够涵盖其他美德的美德,但是，信念，希望，贞操？最重要的是贞操？

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And that is of course at the core of the famous Socratic thesis, that all virtue is a form of knowledge, all the virtues require knowledge and reflection at their basis.

而这正是,著名苏老论点的核心，所有美德都是一种知识形式，所有美德都需要,知识与反思作为其基础。

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Polemarchus But Socrates challenges Polemarchus to a group, any group, cannot be a virtue in itself, and he trips Polemarchus up with a very, in many ways, familiar Socratic argument "? "Do we ever make mistakes?"

但苏格拉底仍挑战,对一个团体或任何团体忠诚本身，并不能当作是一种美德，他对付，Polemarchus，的方式,是大家非常熟悉的苏老式辩论,“我们曾犯错吗“

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