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。

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But he also encourage people not to study philosophy, or not to end there, and to go study and do something that would actually fulfill the ethical mandates of philosophy.

但是他却告诉人们不要去学哲学，或是不要局限于哲学，而是要学些别的东西,因为其他的知识可以,实现哲学提出的道德任务。

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So the job of a good philosopher of his kind is to help make us our ideas clear And to do that, he worked out a logical system.

所以像他那类出色哲学家的任务就是,帮助我们将我们自己的观点说清楚,为了这样，他研究了逻辑体系。

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