In fact, the vast majority of citizens in even the platonically just city will not necessarily have platonically just souls.
事实上,大部份的公民,就算是在柏拉图式的正义之城中,也将不尽然会有柏拉图式的正义灵魂。
This remarkable letter was written when Plato was very old, approximately 50 years after the trial and execution of Socrates.
那封了不起的书信,是在柏拉图年迈时所写,大约是,苏格拉底被审判及处决后的,50,年。
I mean, the Greeks didn't -- Plato's Symposium, all of these guys are sitting around having a drinking party.
我是说,希腊人不这样 --,在柏拉图的飨宴上,人们坐在那里举行酒宴
He gets to go up to Plato's heaven where he can have more direct contact with these things, with the forms.
他可以飞升至柏拉图的天堂,在那里他可以更直接地,接触到型相
The ironic fact is, because the New Testament is considered more important by people, there are a whole lot more people who take my New Testament classes than go over to the Classics Department and take a course in Plato.
讽刺的是,由于人们认为新约更重要,所以在我新约课堂上的人,远远多于,在古典学系选修柏拉图的人。
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。
The idea of having the liberty to say whatever comes to our lips sounds to Plato like a kind of blasphemy.
拥有随意脱口而出,自由的概念,听在柏拉图耳中却像是一种亵渎。
What is justice, we've been questioning asking ourselves throughout this book in which Plato has been,Socrates has been teasing us with.
正义为何,我们不断地自问,整本书柏拉图与苏格拉底,都在挑逗我们的问题。
The philosopher is described by Plato as someone with knowledge of the eternal forms, lying behind or beyond the many particulars.
哲学家在柏拉图的形容下,是拥有永恒知识,置身于许多特殊事物之后或之外的人。
He begins in many ways by appearing to defend Plato's view about the rule of the best individual.
此为其正义,他一开始看似在捍卫,柏拉图的观点,即最优个体的统治。
Hobbes wrote, "I am at the point of believing that my labors will be " as useless as the commonwealth of Plato."
贺伯斯写到,“我在此要相信,我的努力将如同,柏拉图的国家一样不具实用“
But at any rate, our question shouldn't be what was Plato thinking, but is the argument any good.
总之,我们的问题不该是,柏拉图在想什么,而是这个论证好不好。
Plato's Republic is, we will discover as you read, it is a republic of a very special kind.
柏拉图的《理想国》各位在我们继续阅读中,自会发现是一种很特别的理想国。
It might be that Plato is worried that he hasn't really shown that the soul is immortal afterwards.
可能是柏拉图担心,他并没真正解释,灵魂在死后是不朽的。
Now, the objection I've just raised is not the objection that Plato raised in the Phaedo, but he does raise a different objection.
我提出的反对观点并非是,柏拉图在斐多篇里提出的反对观点,但他确实提出了个不同的反对观点。
Ordinary objects in the world participate to a greater or lesser degree in the Platonic forms.
这个世界的普通的事物,在柏拉图型相中会处于或高或低的层次
I don't think they work, though I want to remark before I turn to them that in saying this I'm not necessarily criticizing Plato.
我不认为它们行得通,在此我得声明,说这些话时,我并不一定是在批判柏拉图
So, for example, to give an example that Plato actually gives in the dialogue, we are all awake now, but previously we were asleep.
举例来说吧,柏拉图在对话中举过这么个例子,我们现在都清醒着,但之前我们都在熟睡
So, how do we know, if we've got this play, whose position is Plato's position?
那么,我们如何辨别,在戏剧中,谁代表柏拉图本人的立场呢
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。
Scholars distinguish between the early Platonic dialogues, the so-called Socratic dialogues, where the thought is, those are the views of Socrates, the actual historical figure.
学者们是如此鉴别的,柏拉图早期对话作品,即,在所谓的苏格拉底的对话中,主角苏格拉底的观点,与历史上那个真实的苏格拉底的思想吻合
Think of that. And while you're thinking about it you can start reading Plato's Apology for Socrates which we will discuss for class on Wednesday.
想想这个问题,此外,你们可以开始,阅读柏拉图的《苏格拉底自辩篇》,我们将在周三的课堂上讨论。
And it is certainly a large theme of Plato's theory of justice in the Republic.
而这更是柏拉图在《理想国》中,关于正义的大主题。
But in thinking about math, most of us are inclined to be Platonists.
但在用数学的方式进行思考时,我们都倾向于变成柏拉图主义者
In one of Plato's lesser known dialogues he makes a statement--the following statement, which I think shows both the typical arrogance of the Greeks and also says something true.
在柏拉图的一个不怎么出名的对话录中,他作了一个声明,以下是这些声明,我认为它们既是希腊人典型的傲慢的体现,又说到了一些事实
But most of the objections to Plato's particular form of the philosophic kingship on the practicality of his idea.
但对柏拉图,特别形式之,哲学王权的异议,在其实践性。
It refers to that period that Plato says in the letter looked like "a golden age, " when many things seemed possible."
也就是柏拉图在书信中所指,“事物充满无限可能的,黄金时期“
His complex relationship with Socrates is Alcibiades by the way recounted in the drunken speech that Alcibiades gives in Plato's dialogue Symposium.
他与苏格拉底间,复杂的关系,都由酒醉的,娓娓道来,并记录在柏拉图的,《飨宴篇》辩证中。
Plato's critique of Homeric poetry in the Republic is two-fold; it is both theological and political.
柏拉图在《理想国》中,批评荷马诗学有两层含意;,同时是有关神学与政治学。
slightly other kind of language that Plato uses at various points, "Likes are known by likes."
一种稍微不同的说法是,柏拉图在多个观点中所用到的,同类互知
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