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。
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。
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。
So to explain all this we need now a sort of crash course in Plato's metaphysics.
要解释这些,我们现在得恶补一点柏拉图的形而上学
It was very explicit in Plato, for instance.
比如,柏拉图就曾明确提出过
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。
In one of Plato's lesser known dialogues he makes a statement--the following statement, which I think shows both the typical arrogance of the Greeks and also says something true.
在柏拉图的一个不怎么出名的对话录中,他作了一个声明,以下是这些声明,我认为它们既是希腊人典型的傲慢的体现,又说到了一些事实
His complex relationship with Socrates is Alcibiades by the way recounted in the drunken speech that Alcibiades gives in Plato's dialogue Symposium.
他与苏格拉底间,复杂的关系,都由酒醉的,娓娓道来,并记录在柏拉图的,《飨宴篇》辩证中。
We don't know the real Socrates, all we know of Socrates is what we read in Plato and Aristophanes and a small number of others who have sketched various different pictures of him.
我们不认识真正的苏格拉底,所知的苏格拉底,是透过阅读柏拉图及亚里斯多芬尼斯,及其它少数作者,从不同角度的描绘。
A particularly puritanical editor of Plato from the twentieth century writes in a footnote to that passage, "this is almost the only passage in Plato " that one would wish to blot out," his sensibilities were offended by this notion.
有一位道德特别崇高的编辑,在二十世纪编到柏拉图这个段落时,写了一句脚注,“这应是柏拉图书中唯一一段,让人想要擦掉的话“,他的感性受到那一段话的冒犯。
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
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。
And the answer--the short answer--is, Socrates, the character Socrates in the play, represents Plato, the author of the play's, philosophical views.
答案是,苏格拉底,即剧中苏格拉底的角色诠释了,戏剧作者自己的哲学观
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。
It refers to that period that Plato says in the letter looked like "a golden age, " when many things seemed possible."
也就是柏拉图在书信中所指,“事物充满无限可能的,黄金时期“
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。
Plato's critique of Homeric poetry in the Republic is two-fold; it is both theological and political.
柏拉图在《理想国》中,批评荷马诗学有两层含意;,同时是有关神学与政治学。
In any way, this story helps to underscore some important differences between Plato and Aristotle.
但这个故事的确,深刻地强调了一些重要的,介于柏拉图与亚里士多德之间的差别。
And, in a sense, one could say maybe this is not Plato's last word, I mean why does Socrates choose to stay and drink the hemlock?
或者也可以说,这并非柏拉图的结论,我是说为何苏格拉底,选择停留并服下毒参?
But is this right, in other words, ? is that really Plato's teaching?
但这是真的吗?换言之,那真的是柏拉图的学说吗?
It could be that Plato's deliberately putting mistakes in earlier arguments so as to encourage you to think for yourself, "Oh, this is--here's a problem with this argument.
有可能是柏拉图有意的,在早期理论中犯下一些错误,从而鼓励你们去独立思考,这个论点有问题
In the case of Plato, I'm going to make an exception.
对于柏拉图这块,我会做特别对待
And yet Plato continues to not appear in the dialogue.
而且,柏拉图一直没有在对话篇中现身
Plato does not typically appear in his own dialogues.
柏拉图本人通常并不在自己的对话篇里出现
Yeah, this is not a bad time for me to remind you that in one of Plato's dialogues, Socrates says the Greeks sit like frogs around a pond and that pond is the Aegean Sea.
下面引用一下,柏拉图记录的一段对话,苏格拉底说希腊地形,就像一群青蛙围着一个池塘,而那池塘就是爱琴海
In fact, if I recall correctly, Plato's mentioned as not being there on the day that Socrates dies.
实际上,如果我没记错的话,柏拉图曾提到,苏格拉底死时自己并不在场
Now, the objection I've just raised is not the objection that Plato raised in the Phaedo, but he does raise a different objection.
我提出的反对观点并非是,柏拉图在斐多篇里提出的反对观点,但他确实提出了个不同的反对观点。
So Plato could still insist things that are invisible in the sense of undetectable can't be destroyed.
所以柏拉图仍旧可以坚持说无形的东西,无形这里指不能检测到,是不能毁灭的。
Plato undertook three long and dangerous voyages to Sicily in order to advise the King Dionysius.
柏拉图三度冒险渡海至西西里岛,只为向戴奥尼索斯王献策;
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