Error is not a poetic elaboration on things which somehow, as it does in Plato's view, undermines the integrity of that truth identified by philosophers.
错误并不是对事物一种诗化的详细阐释,正如柏拉图的观,这种阐释以某种方式削减了,被哲学家认同的真理,的诚实性。
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。
So your goal, Plato says, your goal should be, in life, to practice death-- to separate yourself from your body.
所以你的目标,柏拉图说,你的目标应该是,活着时,练习,把心灵从身体分离出来
That at the base of all societies there has to be a labor system that will support the possibility of Plato.
在所有社会的基础上,必须有一个劳动制度,一个能供柏拉图施展他才华的制度
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
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。
In other words, Plato is wrong. The poet is not a liar because he's not talking about anything that's verifiable or falsifiable.
意思就是说,柏拉图错了,诗人不是骗子,因为它从未说过什么话可以证明或证伪。
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。
He was sent to Athens " to study at The Academy, the first university, spoke about and established by Plato.
他被送到雅典,就读于,“柏拉图学院,首座大学,由柏拉图建立与主讲。
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。
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。
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。
The platonic idea of justice concerns harmony, he tells us, both harmony in the city and harmony in the soul.
柏拉图式的正义观是关于和谐,他说到,那是关于城市的和谐与灵魂的和谐。
All this stuff, hungering after pleasure, all this stuff gets in the way of thinking about the Platonic forms.
所有这些,还有对享乐的追求,所有这些都妨碍人们思考柏拉图式的型相
We have in Plato's own words here, the way he viewed politics and his reasons for his political philosophy.
我看到了柏拉图自述,他对政治的观点,以及他对自己政治哲学的理解。
Now, it's not my purpose here to try to argue for or against Platonism with regard to abstract entities.
我的目的不是,试图去辩护或者反对,柏拉图哲学中的抽象实体这个概念
Well, Aristotle and Plato,both sort of theoreticians of the polis each had an idea what's the right size for the perfect polis.
亚里士多德和柏拉图,这两位精于城邦理论的理论家对此各执己见
Our question is not was Plato overlooking something he should have thought of, is does this argument work or not.
我们的问题不是柏拉图忽略了,一些他本该想到的事情,而是这个论证说不说得通。
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。
Plato's excessive emphasis on unity would seem to destroy the natural diversity of human beings that make up a city.
柏拉图过度地强调和谐,似乎会摧毁,构成城市的自然人性差异。
As a teacher of mine used to say "You read Plato your way " I'll read him his way."
如同我一位老师常说的,“你们以你们的方式阅读柏拉图,我会以他的方式来阅读他“
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。
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
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。
"Leontius "Leontius," he writes, "was proceeding from the Piraeus outside the north wall when he perceived corpses lying near the public executioner.
柏拉图写到,从皮里亚斯,走出北侧墙外,他感受到尸体,躺在刽子手的周围。
Raise the objection, that's Plato raises the objection in the voice of Cebes but Socrates, on Plato's behalf, never answers the objection.
提出反对观点是柏拉图,替赛贝斯提出的,但是苏格拉底,从没回应过这个反对观点。
these are at least among the questions that Socrates or Plato, the author of the book, deliberately poses for us to consider.
就是这些问题,这些至少就是苏格拉底或柏拉图,本书作者,所特意提出让我们思考的问题。
For Plato, philosophy was in the first instance, a therapy for our passions in a way of setting limits to our desires.
对于柏拉图,哲学的首要任务,是透过对我们的欲望设限,来治疗我们的激情。
We can say today that this university is a direct ancestor of the platonic republic of Plato's Academy.
我们可以说现今这间大学的直系原型,即是,“柏拉图学院“的,柏拉图式理想国。
We can begin to see it is clear how Aristotle's best regime differs from Plato's intransigent demand for the rule of philosopher-kings.
我们可以开始清楚地发现,亚里士多德的最佳政体,如何有别于柏拉图,对哲学家国王统治的不妥协要求。
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