We want to free ourselves from the distractions of the body, but we don't want the body to die, because when the body dies the soul dies as well.

我们想把自己从肉体的干扰中解放出来,但是我们不能让肉体死亡,因为当肉体死去的时,灵魂也会同样消亡

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So, we've got this nice Platonic picture where Plato says, "All right. So the mind can grasp the eternal forms, but it has to free itself from the body to do that."

我们这有一个柏拉图式的场景,柏拉图说,心灵可以认知永恒的型相,但是它必须先从肉体中解脱出来

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