Plato himself poked subtle fun at the strangeness of what he was proposing, and some scholars are not sure just how seriously Plato took the proposals of the Republic himself.

柏拉图对自己的古怪提议也会小小地自嘲，于是一些学者并不确定柏拉图对《理想国》中提出的那些想法到底有多认真。

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One thing, of course, you note in the Republic, is that Plato is nowhere present.

当然，有一件事你会注意到，在《理想国》中并未有柏拉图踪迹。

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Like the Republic of Plato, it is doubtful that More's utopian vision could provide the basis for a realistic model of any society, let alone the transformation of an existing one.

同柏拉图的理想国构想一样，很难讲莫尔的乌托邦模式是否可以为任何一个现实中的社会提供一种模式，更别说有些社会还是在过渡时期。

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The Republic belongs to that period of Plato's work after his return to Athens, after the execution of Socrates.

理想国》即是柏拉图,在返回雅典后的作品之一，也就是在苏格拉底被处决之后。

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We can say today that this university is a direct ancestor of the platonic republic of Plato's Academy.

我们可以说现今这间大学的直系原型,即是，“柏拉图学院“的,柏拉图式理想国。

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If you don't believe me about this, maybe you will consider the words of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, one of the great readers of Plato's Republic.

如果你们不信，也许可以考虑,鲁索的话语，他是最重要的柏拉图《理想国》读者之一。

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Bhutan was the first country to attempt this in 1972, when its ruler coined the term "gross domestic happiness, " but the idea is as old as Plato's Republic: how to cultivate happy as well as prosperous citizens.

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