西方思想经典导读

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• Our construction is called a democracy because power is in the hands not of a minority but of the whole people. When it is a question of settling private disputes, everyone is equal before the law; when it is a question of putting one person before anther in positions of public resposibility, what counts is not membership of a particular class, but the actual ability which the man possesses. No one, so long as he has it in him t be of service to the state, is kept in political obsurity because of poverty. 6 Our city is open to the world, and we have no periodical deportations in order to prevent people observing or finding out secrets which might be of military advantage to the enemy. This is because we rely, not on secret weapons, but on our own real courage and loyalty. We regard wealth... (查看原文)

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• The state is intended to enable all, in their households and their kinships, to live well, meaning by that full and satisfying life... (查看原文)

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