The famed Socratic method of argumentation is basically all that remains of the older pre-Socratic culture of struggle and combat.

著名的苏格拉底式辩论法,基本上，仍全盘维持旧时前苏格拉底式的,斗争与战斗文化。

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If both religion and reason are removed, all that remains is will and power, where the only law is the law of tooth and claw.

如果宗教和理性都被世人所摒弃,那么世间就只剩下了权力和欲望,而这世间唯一准则就只剩下了弱肉强食

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