Plato is not only one of the greatest philosophers in history, he wrote his philosophy in the form of dialogues.

柏拉图是历史上最伟大的哲学家之一,并且,他使用对话体形式来阐述其观点

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The purpose of that dialogue, of that philosophical work, is to argue for the immortality of the soul.

该哲学著作中,所有对话的目的,是要论证灵魂不朽

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The Delphic Oracle is interpreted by Socrates at least to command engaging with others in philosophical conversation.

苏格拉底如此解译德尔菲神谕,至少是为了要能够,和其它人进行哲学对话。

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Those of you who would like to know more about it, I recommend reading more Platonic dialogues or taking a class in ancient philosophy.

如果你们当中有谁想做更多的了解,我推荐去读柏拉图对话集,或者选修古代哲学课程

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The question that the philosophical discussion turns on is not, "Is there a soul?"

对话篇中哲学讨论所围绕的问题,并不是,灵魂是否存在

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Philosophy and certainly Socratic philosophy requires friends, comrades, conversations.

哲学及苏格拉底式的哲学,需要朋友，同伴及对话。

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The work is not, in a sense, written simply as a sort of timeless philosophical treatise, but as a dramatic dialogue with a setting, a cast of characters and a firm location in time and place.

但本书的著作目的，不仅是,永恒的的哲学论述，更是戏剧性的对话，内含场景，人物,及一个确切时间与位置。

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But there's one other complication that you've got to be warned about, which is this. Because these are dialogues and they take the form of philosophical arguments, people put forward views and then, over the course of the discussion, change their minds about things.

但是,还有一个地方,我要提醒你们,那就是,由于这些是对话作品,且它们全都采用了哲学论证的形式,即,人们先提出观点,然后,在讨论的过程中,改变自己的关于事物想法

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