Plato's idea is that if we start doing enough metaphysics, we can see there must be this realm of Platonic ideas, Platonic forms.

柏拉图的观点是,如果我们对形而上学有充分的研究,就必能看到柏拉图式的,理念或是型相组成的世界

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Almost immediately after the trial of Socrates, Plato left Athens and traveled extensively throughout the Greek world.

苏格拉底审判后的当下，柏拉图离开雅典,广泛地的游走于希腊世界。

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The world is constantly rolling-- this is a Platonic expression-- rolling between one form and the other.

这个世界就这样不断的左右摇摆,这是种柏拉图式的表达,型相间的来回摇摆

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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

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But the Platonic forms, as we also know, are not to be found in this world.

但是我们还知道,现实世界中没有柏拉图型相

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A further point that distinguishes the empirical world from this-- this realm of Platonic ideal objects-- is that indeed they-- there's something perfect about them.

更进一步,使现实世界和这个所谓的,柏拉图的理念世界的区别,在于那个世界中有些东西是完美的

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But Plato's got the idea that there's nothing in this world that's perfectly beautiful.

但是柏拉图认为,世界上不存在完美的事物

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Well, Plato thinks that the empirical world has something of that kind of insanity, something of that kind contradictoriness, built into it that we don't ordinarily notice.

柏拉图认为,现实的世界也是类似的疯狂,这其中有一种矛盾性,但我们身在其中一般不会注意到

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