But the state of nature, for him, is rather a kind of thought experiment after the manner of experimental science.

但是对他来说，自然状态，是一种思想的实验,这是在科学实验之后。

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It is a kind of thought experiment.

这是一种思想的实验。

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The thought is that, there's a kind of incompatibility with being free and being determined.

以上的观点是,自由和被决定,这两者是不相容的

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Plato thought of democracy as a kind of rule by the many that he associated with the unrestricted freedom to do everything that one likes.

柏拉图将民主,想成是一种由多方所统治,并连结到,不受限制的自由,每个人为所欲为。

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I thought that the city was then living a kind of life which was unjust and that they would bend it to a just one and so administer it more justly.

我以为当时,城邦的生活不公,但他们会将它转变成公正的,并更公正的管理它。

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We don't know precisely what Plato thought, but we are helped, at least, by a kind of intellectual autobiography that he wrote and that we still have, in what is " conventionally referred to as The Seventh Letter.

我们无法确切明了柏拉图的想法，但至少我们能透过,某种理智的自传找到线索,我们仍握有他亲笔所写的书信,即一般所指的，“第七书信。

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