Plato wrote the dialogues as a kind of learning device, as a tool to help the reader get better at doing philosophy.

柏拉图写下这些对话录,是为了将其作为一种助学方法,作为一种帮助读者,更好的掌握哲学的工具

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Or perhaps Chinese on Monday, Wednesdays, and Fridays and Thai on Saturdays and Sundays and spending two hours in the afternoon doing math and three hours in the morning doing philosophy.

或周一三五吃中餐,周六日吃泰国菜,下午花两小时研究数学,上午三小时思考哲学，统统没有用。

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This in some ways might seem a case of putting the cart before the horse or the cart before the course maybe because how can you say how can we say ? what political philosophy is in advance of doing it?

这好像有点,本末倒置,或说未卜先知,因为你们怎能谈，我们怎能,先谈政治哲学，之后再来实作呢？

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Maybe reading philosophy would be somethin that as long as you were doing it you couldn't die or, as perhaps some religious traditions might've taught, as long as you were engaged in prayer ? you couldn't die. Wouldn't that be nice?

也许看哲学书会是某件,只要你在做，你就不可能死的事，或者也许像某些宗教传统所说，只要你参与祷告,你就不可能死，那样岂不是很好？

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