So for our purposes, we don't have to ask ourselves when Socrates in the dialogue says something, is this a view that the dead man Socrates actually would have held or is this simply a view that the dead man Plato put in the mouth of the character Socrates?

所以,出于这门课程的目的,我们无需深究,苏格拉底在对话中的某个观点,到底是属于那个真实的受死之人苏格拉底的,还是属于已故之人柏拉图,通过作品中苏格拉底这个角色所表述的

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