有人说过一切哲学都不过是柏拉图哲学的一个脚注而已。
这并不是说，像柏拉图认为的那样我们可以简单的诉求专门的哲学告诉我们应该怎样生活。
This is not to say that, as Plato thought, we can simply appeal to expert philosophical opinion to tells us how we ought to live.
如果你们当中有谁想做更多的了解，我推荐去读柏拉图对话集，或者选修古代哲学课程。
Those of you who would like to know more about it, I recommend reading more Platonic dialogues or taking a class in ancient philosophy.
如果古希腊哲学家柏拉图在对人类境遇的探讨中没包含那么多真知灼见的话，他的名字可能在几个世纪前就被遗忘了。
If the writing of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato had not contained so much truth about the human condition, his name would have been forgotten centuries ago.
柏拉图(427- 347)被很多人认为是最伟大的西方哲学家。
Plato (427-347) is often described as the greatest Western philosopher.
但对柏拉图，特别形式之，哲学王权的异议，在其实践性。
But most of the objections to Plato's particular form of the philosophic kingship on the practicality of his idea.
我们发现，在希腊哲学家中，毕达哥拉斯和柏拉图以及他们的追随者相信灵魂轮回或转生。
Among the Greek philosophers we find that Pythagoras, Plato and their followers believed in this theory of Metempsychosis or Transmigration of souls.
在柏拉图时代，诡辩家以哲学来谋取私利；他们制造漏洞，使某些人可以逃避其应尽的义务，或者要人们反而去原谅那些被认为是不道德的行为。
The Sophists in Plato’s time were men who used philosophy for profit, inventing moral loopholes to get people out of obligations, or to excuse what would otherwise be considered immoral behavior.
伟大的哲学家柏拉图也有一些脍炙人口的爱情名言。
The great philosopher Plato is also known for some of his quotations on love.
在人类的知识宝库中，古希腊哲学家柏拉图写下了不朽的著作。
Among the great books of mankind are the immortal writings by the Greek philosopher Plato.
苏格拉底的学生柏拉图是西方哲学史上另一个非常重要的人物。
One of his students, Plato, would go on to become another major figure in the history of Western philosophy.
人们总是希望哲学家能够提供能够享用的智慧，然而如今实际情况却同柏拉图时代一样，进行有序的思考十分困难。
People have always wanted philosophers to provide digestible wisdom, yet it is as true now as it was in Plato's time that disciplined thinking is hard.
后面的主张从柏拉图开始就一直处于西方哲学的核心，不过现在已经为它设计出以观察和实验为依据的测试了。
The latter assertion has been at the crux of Western philosophy since Plato, but it's taken until now to devise an empirical test for it.
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。
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.
波伊提乌的哲学观点主要是受柏拉图的启发，他发现“上帝的实质仅存在于美德当中”。
Boethius, primarily motivated by Plato in his philosophical views, finds that, ‘The substance of God consisteth in nothing else but goodness’.
一些专家说，柏拉图是最伟大的希腊哲学家，连同他的导师苏格拉底和学生亚里士多德，他们三人为现代西方文化和科学做了奠基。
Some experts say Plato is the greatest of all the Greek philosophers and together with Socrates, his mentor, and Aristotle, a student, founded modern Western culture and science.
人们常把柏拉图与理想世界——哲学家称其为样板——的存在联系起来。
Plato is often associated with the existence of a perfect world, which philosophers call the Forms.
从希波克拉底、苏格拉底、柏拉图等哲学家以来的几千年认为禁食是保持健康的主要原因。
For thousands of years, beginning with philosophers like Hippocrates, Socrates and Plato, fasting was recommended for health reasons.
柏拉图，一位古希腊哲学家，创立了有关灵魂的伴侣的学说。
Plato, an ancient Greek philosopher, originated the theory of soul mates.
多亏了伟大的古希腊哲学家柏拉图，今天我们才对已消失在海底的亚特兰蒂斯古城有如此高涨的热情。
We have the great Greek philosopher Plato to thank for the ongoing obsession with the lost city of Atlantis.
柏拉图的哲学中于是存在两个不同的世界，在比喻中分别由洞穴和外面的世界所代表。
In Plato's philosophy there are thus two distinct worlds, and it is these two worlds that are symbolized in his allegory by the cave on the one hand, and the outside world on the other.
但远未到一个题外话脚注，我认为这在柏拉图的时刻告诉我们什么巨大的东西是一个哲学家和哲学没有什么重要。
But far from being a footnote to a digression, I think this moment in Plato tells us something hugely important about what a philosopher is and what philosophy does.
Romm认为柏拉图虚构了亚特兰蒂斯这么个故事来宣扬他的哲学理论。
Romm believes Plato created the story of Atlantis to convey some of his philosophical theories.
历史学家喜欢引用A.N.怀海德的话：“欧洲哲学传统最被普遍公认的特点，就是它包含了一系列引用柏拉图的注脚。”
Historians like to quote A. N. Whitehead who said: "The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."
作家Hughes并没有在书中系统地向我们介绍她对苏格拉底的哲学研究，她也没有试图解决有关如何分辨哪个才是柏拉图笔下的苏格拉底这个著名的哲学问题。
Hughes does not present a methodical study of the philosophy of Socrates, nor does she deal much with the famous Socratic problem of how to distinguish the real Socrates from Plato's portrait of him.
希腊哲学家柏拉图在2,600年前写到亚特兰蒂斯的时候，将它描述为“一座位于名字叫作赫拉克勒斯之柱的海峡前的岛屿。”
Greek philosopher Plato wrote about Atlantis some 2, 600 years ago, describing it as' an island situated in front of the straits called the Pillars of Hercules. '.
希腊哲学家柏拉图在2,600年前写到亚特兰蒂斯的时候，将它描述为“一座位于名字叫作赫拉克勒斯之柱的海峡前的岛屿。”
Greek philosopher Plato wrote about Atlantis some 2,600 years ago, describing it as' an island situated in front of the straits called the Pillars of Hercules. '.
希腊哲学家柏拉图在2,600年前写到亚特兰蒂斯的时候，将它描述为“一座位于名字叫作赫拉克勒斯之柱的海峡前的岛屿。”
Greek philosopher Plato wrote about Atlantis some 2,600 years ago, describing it as' an island situated in front of the straits called the Pillars of Hercules. '.
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