And so the heart of the dialogue consists of a series of arguments in which Socrates attempts to lay out his reasons for believing in the immortality of the soul.

所以这部对话录的核心，是由一系列的讨论组成的，其中苏格拉底试图摆出他的原因，让人相信灵魂是不朽的。

youdao

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

这篇对话，这篇哲学著作的目的是关于灵魂不朽的论述。

youdao

It's important to realize — as you read the dialogue, it becomes fairly apparent — that there isn't so much any defense of the belief in the soul.

值得注意的是，当你们读这篇对话时，会发现里面并没有，多少篇幅很明显地，论证灵魂的存在。

youdao

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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For the most part, the existence of the soul is just taken for granted in the dialogue.

就大部分篇幅而言,这篇对话里将灵魂的存在,看作是理所当然的

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And so, in addition to philosophical arguments for and against the existence and immortality of the soul, we end the dialogue with a quite moving death scene, one of the great death scenes, if we could call it that, of western civilization.

所以,支持和反对,灵魂的存在与不朽的论证,以一个感人至深的死亡场景告终,这简直就是西方文明史上,最伟大的死亡场景之一,如果我们可以这样说的话

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