Plato here seems to agree with Winston Churchill that democracy is the worst regime except for all the others.

柏拉图似乎与丘吉尔意味相投,认为民主若没有相较于其它的政体,将是最糟的一种。

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Now, let's say, I'm not really much concerned with whether this was an argument that Plato thought worked or not.

我其实并不太关心,柏拉图本人认为,这个论证是否说得通

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Plato, being a mathematician, as Aristotle was not, decided that the perfect polis would have 5,040 citizens.

而和亚里士多德不同,作为数学家,柏拉图认为完美的城邦应有五千零四十个公民

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These are sort of flailing away at different ideas but another way of doing--an older way is proposed by Plato, who viewed laughter as a form of bonding against a common enemy.

我现在说的都是各种猜想,但从另一个角度看，一个古老的角度,这是由柏拉图提出的，他认为笑是一种巩固感情的形式,对抗共同的敌人。

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So the very next arguement that Plato turns to can be viewed I think, as responding to this unstated objection.

所以柏拉图紧接着转向的论点,我认为可以被视作,对这个没有陈述的反对观点的回应。

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If we grant that to Plato, he thinks we've got an argument for the immortality of the soul.

如果我们同意柏拉图这个观点,他认为我们就有了支持灵魂不灭性的论据

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In order for a more or less round plate to remind me of roundness, Plato says, I have to have already met perfect roundness itself.

如果一个或多或少,有点圆的盘子能让我想到正圆,柏拉图认为,我必须已经见过完美的圆本身了

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I'll say, "Plato holds" Or "Socrates argues," because for our purposes it's all the same.

我会说,"柏拉图认为"或者"苏格拉底认为",因为就这门课的目的而言两种说法是等效的

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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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Plato thinks of it as crazy in the way that a dream is.

柏拉图认为这种疯狂就像是做梦一样

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Except Plato's thought was, everything is like that.

柏拉图认为,任何事物都是这样

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Plato thought everything was like that.

柏拉图认为万事万物都是如此

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I think maybe Plato could say that.

我认为柏拉图也许会这么说。

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Well, Plato thinks what's going to follow is that we have some reason to believe in the immortality of the soul as, again, as we indicated last time, the picture is that the mind--the soul-- is able to grasp these eternal Platonic forms, the ideas.

柏拉图认为接下来,我们就有理由去相信,灵魂的不朽,就像我们上次指出的,它的中心思想是心灵,灵魂,可以去认知,这些柏拉图的型相,理念

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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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