上句見：Day288
The Story of Philosophy《哲學(xué)的故事》第1章Plato第5節(jié)V. The Political Problem第3段第1句：
He answers, because of greed and luxury. Men are not content with a simple life: they are acquisitive, ambitious, competitive, and jealous; they soon tire of what they have, and pine for what they have not; and they seldom desire anything unless it belongs to others. The result is the encroachment of one group upon the territory of another, the rivalry of groups for the resources of the soil, and then war. Trade and finance develop, and bring new class-divisions. "Any ordinary city is in fact two cities, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich, each at war with the other; and in either division there are smaller ones — you would make a great mistake if you treated them as single states"(423). A mercantile bourgeoisie arises, whose members seek social position through wealth and conspicuous consumption:"they will spend large sums of money on their wives"(548). These changes in the distribution of wealth produce political changes: as the wealth of the merchant over -reaches that of the land-owner, aristocracy gives way to a plutocratic oligarchy — wealthy traders and bankers rule the state. Then statesmanship, which is the coordination of social forces and the adjustment of policy to growth, is replaced by politics, which is the strategy of party and the lust for the spoils of office.
浙江大學(xué)譯本：他的回答是瓜晤，因?yàn)樨澙泛蜕莩蕖?/p>
解析
1球匕、He answers, because of greed and luxury.
他的答案是因?yàn)樨澙泛蜕莩蕖?/p>
上一段的末尾柏拉圖在問天堂在現(xiàn)實(shí)不存在的原因。這句開頭作者直接給出了柏拉圖的觀點(diǎn)筒捺，那是因?yàn)樨澙泛蜕莩蘼冈稀Q句話蝴悉，就是欲望無(wú)節(jié)制辫红。
