在色诺芬尼所著的远征记中描述了其战败和死亡之后的撤退。
The retreat that followed his defeat and death are described in Xenophon's anabasis.
尽管这样,色诺芬尼仍然因为其巨大的影响力而被他的后继者铭记和提及。
Nonetheless, Xenophanes clearly had enough influence to be remembered and mentioned by those that followed him.
像他之前的泰勒斯一样,色诺芬尼也对自然现象背后的潜在原则进行推测。
Like Thales before him, Xenophanes speculated about the underlying principles of natural phenomena.
色诺芬尼是已知的第一位像苏格拉底那样以谨慎的态度对待任何所谓确凿的知识的哲学家。
Xenophanes was also the first known thinker to anticipate Socrates' caution regarding claims of certain knowledge.
色诺芬尼说,如果牛和马有手能够绘画的话,牛描绘神的形象无疑像牛,而马描绘神的形象无疑像马。
If oxen and horses had hands and could paint, Xenophanes said, oxen would no doubt paint the forms of gods like oxen and horses would paint them like horses.
作为一种已知最早的对于文化相对论的表述,色诺芬尼认为:荷马的神只是荷马式的文化的一种简单的反应。
In one of the earliest known expressions of cultural relativism, Xenophanes remarked that Homer's gods were simply a reflection of Homerian culture.
意大利南部古代希腊的殖民地,邻近萨勒诺海湾,是埃利亚哲学学派的中心,此学派据说由色诺芬尼创立。
An ancient Greek colony of southern Italy near the Gulf of Salerno. Reputedly founded by Xenophanes, it was the center of the Eleatic school of philosophy.
色诺芬尼认为,荷马的神具有所有有缺陷的人类所具有的不道德和不文雅的特质,而这些几乎不应该成为崇敬的对象。
Homer's gods, Xenophanes complained, had all the immoral and disgraceful traits of flawed human beings and should hardly be the object of veneration.
正像前苏格拉底时代的自由思想家色诺芬尼在2500年前写下的:“如果狮子会思考,它们的上帝会有鬃毛和狮吼。”
As Xenophanes, the Presocratic free-thinker, wrote 2500 years ago, "If Lion could think, their Gods would have a mane and roar."
色诺芬尼对于惟一神持有模棱两可的概念,认为惟一神“在形体和思想上与人类毫无相似”,但是“却凭借他的理念摆布一切”。
Xenophanes held some vague concept of a single deity that was ‘in no way like men in shape or in thought’ but rather ‘causing all things by the thought of his mind’.
在色诺芬尼的思想中几乎不存在固定或潜在的体系,或者在他思想中存在的体系不是那种我们从后世流传的只言片语中分辨出的。
There is little coherent or underlying structure to Xenophanes' thought, or at least not that we can tell from the fragments that have come down through history.
在毕达哥拉斯和克塞诺·芬尼的影响下,巴门·尼德提出了他的存在论。
Under the influence of Pythagoras and Xenophanes, Parmenides proposes his theory about "Being".
在毕达哥拉斯和克塞诺·芬尼的影响下,巴门·尼德提出了他的存在论。
Under the influence of Pythagoras and Xenophanes, Parmenides proposes his theory about "Being".
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