Indians said they could not identify with the mix of Hindi, English and Spanish dialogues.

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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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We can often better understand the dialogues by seeing Socrates as putting forward certain positions that he does not think are altogether adequate.

通过了解那些由苏格拉底提出,但他自己也觉得不充分的观点,我们可以更好地理解这些对话作品

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In many ways that would seem to make a certain sense of the apparent discrepancy between these two dialogues.

从很多层面看来似乎有点道理,即明显的不一致,存在于那两则语录之中。

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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

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As I say, don't worry about any of those details now, but it's a point to keep in mind as you read the dialogues.

我之前说过,不要过多拘泥于细枝末节,但在阅读对话时应该谨记,细节很重要

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Plato is not only one of the greatest philosophers in history, he wrote his philosophy in the form of dialogues.

柏拉图是历史上最伟大的哲学家之一,并且,他使用对话体形式来阐述其观点

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Scholars distinguish between the early Platonic dialogues, the so-called Socratic dialogues, where the thought is, those are the views of Socrates, the actual historical figure.

学者们是如此鉴别的,柏拉图早期对话作品,即,在所谓的苏格拉底的对话中,主角苏格拉底的观点,与历史上那个真实的苏格拉底的思想吻合

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And then there's the late dialogues, where even though Socrates appears, most scholars believe those are probably not the views that the historical Socrates actually believed.

而就柏拉图的晚期对话作品而言,尽管苏格拉底也频频出场,大多数学者认为,那些观点很可能,并不是真实的苏格拉底所持有的

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There is, in the first set of dialogues, a distinct hierarchy of characters, you might say, who we see later on express those distinctive features of the soul and the city.

在第一段对话中，可以明显地看出角色间的尊卑地位，你也可以说这些人,所表达出的独特性格,正是灵魂与城邦所具备。

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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

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But there's one other complication that you've got to be warned about, which is this. Because these are dialogues and they take the form of philosophical arguments, people put forward views and then, over the course of the discussion, change their minds about things.

但是,还有一个地方,我要提醒你们,那就是,由于这些是对话作品,且它们全都采用了哲学论证的形式,即,人们先提出观点,然后,在讨论的过程中,改变自己的关于事物想法

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Plato's dialogues, the Apology as well as the Republic and the Crito are in the broadest sense of the term, an attempt not only to answer the charge against Aristophanes but also defend the cause of philosophy as something of value and merit.

柏拉图的语录《苏格拉底自辩篇》,《理想国》和《克里托篇》,以最广泛的解释看来，不仅试图响应,亚里斯多芬尼斯的控诉,同时还捍卫着,哲学的目标是价值与功绩。

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Now, as I say, many times when you read the dialogue, this or other dialogues by Plato, it seems as though he's fully cognizant of the objections that at least an attentive reader will raise about earlier stages of the argument.

很多时候当你阅读柏拉图的对话录,不管是这篇还是其他篇,柏拉图似乎很清楚至少有一个留心的读者,会对早期的一些观点,提出反驳意见

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