her brothers were eleven and nine: unusually young actors, we might think, to be engaged in such high-flying philosophical debates as these two characters find themselves in.

分别是11岁和9岁，不寻常的小演员，我们可能会想，他们来演这雄心壮志的哲学辩论,是怎么样的。

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Well, the things we'll talk about are philosophical questions that arise as we begin to think about the nature of death.

我们要讨论的是,在我们思考死亡本质时产生的哲学问题。

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At no other point in the Republic, I think, do we see so clearly the tension between philosophical reflectiveness. on the one hand, in the sense of camaraderie, mutuality and esprit de corps necessary for political life on the other.

理想国》书中再也没有其它情节，能将这般清楚地将张力,展现在哲思深虑，化作同伴忠诚、相互关系及团队精神之间,且是天秤另一端之,政治生活所必备。

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So attempts to dismiss the appeal to near- death experiences on what we might call philosophical grounds-- this would be the bad notion of philosophy-- on philosophical grounds, I think that's got to be misguided.

因此想要在哲学基础上,驳回这种诉诸濒死体验,这可不是一个好的哲学观,从哲学基础上来看,我想那是不明智的

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But one of the things that it can do, one of the things that sort of provides the underpinnings, as we'll see, for Plato's arguments for the immortality of the soul is the soul can think about--; well, here I'll have to introduce a word of philosophical jargon.

但是,在灵魂能做的所有事情中,我们会发现,有一件事可以说是,柏拉图论证灵魂不朽的基础,这件事就是,灵魂能够思考,在这里我要引入一个哲学术语

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