For Plato, philosophy was in the first instance, a therapy for our passions in a way of setting limits to our desires.
对于柏拉图,哲学的首要任务,是透过对我们的欲望设限,来治疗我们的激情。
I have a certain set of desires about wanting to finish my book in philosophy and so forth.
有一系列想要完成哲学著作的欲望,以及其他种种。
And yet for others, philosophy is the source of the desire to dominate.
但对其他人而言,哲学却是支配欲望的来源。
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