We continue to ask the same questions that were asked by Plato Machiavelli Hobbes and others.
我们持续提出相同的问题,就像柏拉图,马奇亚维利,贺伯斯,及其它人当时提出时一样。
And what things Aristeon and the Presbyter John, disciples of the Lord used to say. For I did not suppose that the things from the books would aid me, so much as things from the living and continuing voice."
还有亚力斯帝安和牧师约翰,及主的门徒说过什么,因为我觉得,书里的东西对我的助益,不如人口述相传的东西“
We have to read--poor Lynda has to take this kind of stuff— reading Aristoxenus and things like this.
我们必须去阅读,比如我们可怜的琳达,亚里士多塞诺斯之类的作品
He's taken to the beautiful city on the island of Scheria, Phaiacia, and is treated with great respect as you're supposed to in the Mycenaean world.
他被带到斯刻里亚岛上的一个美丽城市,腓埃基亚,他受到众人的礼遇,就好像在迈锡尼王国一样
And you see this, going back to Socrates, there's a dialogue, the Gorgias, in which one of Socrates' friends, Callicles, tries to talk him out of philosophizing.
追溯到苏格拉底时代,就有这样一段对话,在《高尔吉亚篇》中,苏格拉底的一位朋友,卡里克利斯,试图说服苏格拉底放弃哲学思考。
Take Jedidiah Morse, for example, the great geographer.
比如杰迪代亚·莫尔斯,伟大的地理学家
Well, the most famous early on, King Croesus of Lydia, the richest man in the world,you've heard all about him, decides it would be a nice thing to conquer the Persian Empire, his neighbor to the east.
最著名的就是吕底亚的克洛伊索斯国王,之前已经讲过,他是世上最富有的人,他觉得征服他东方的邻居,波斯帝国,是一个不错的事
He said, "If I cross the Halys River, that's the boundary between Lydia and Persia, what will happen?" The oracle replied, "A great empire will be destroyed," And Croesus said, "Terrific that's what I have in mind."
如果我跨过了哈吕斯河,那是吕底亚和波斯的分界线,会有什么后果,神谕回答说,一个伟大的帝国将被摧毁,于是克洛伊索斯说,太棒了,正如我愿
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