The ancient Greek philosopher Plato first wrote about Atlantis long ago.
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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。
To be sure, Machiavelli focuses on key aspects of political reality which are often ignored by thinkers like Plato and Aristotle.
事实上马奇亚维利所专注的,政治现实观点,是其它思想家所常遗漏,像柏拉图和亚里士多德。
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
That at the base of all societies there has to be a labor system that will support the possibility of Plato.
在所有社会的基础上,必须有一个劳动制度,一个能供柏拉图施展他才华的制度
I mean, the Greeks didn't -- Plato's Symposium, all of these guys are sitting around having a drinking party.
我是说,希腊人不这样 --,在柏拉图的飨宴上,人们坐在那里举行酒宴
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。
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。
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。
So the very next arguement that Plato turns to can be viewed I think, as responding to this unstated objection.
所以柏拉图紧接着转向的论点,我认为可以被视作,对这个没有陈述的反对观点的回应。
The Republic belongs to that period of Plato's work after his return to Athens, after the execution of Socrates.
理想国》即是柏拉图,在返回雅典后的作品之一,也就是在苏格拉底被处决之后。
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
Plato here seems to agree with Winston Churchill that democracy is the worst regime except for all the others.
柏拉图似乎与丘吉尔意味相投,认为民主若没有相较于其它的政体,将是最糟的一种。
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。
We can begin to see it is clear how Aristotle's best regime differs from Plato's intransigent demand for the rule of philosopher-kings.
我们可以开始清楚地发现,亚里士多德的最佳政体,如何有别于柏拉图,对哲学家国王统治的不妥协要求。
Plato's going to argue once we understand the sort of metaphysical nature of the soul, we'll see why it couldn't be destroyed.
柏拉图会为我们证明,一旦我们理解了灵魂的哲学本质,我们就会明白为什么不能摧毁灵魂
The polis, as Aristotle as well as Plato clearly understand, is a small society, what could be called today a closed society.
如亚里士多德及柏拉图清楚明白,是一个小型的社会,即今日所称的封闭社会。
Well, Aristotle and Plato,both sort of theoreticians of the polis each had an idea what's the right size for the perfect polis.
亚里士多德和柏拉图,这两位精于城邦理论的理论家对此各执己见
Our question is not was Plato overlooking something he should have thought of, is does this argument work or not.
我们的问题不是柏拉图忽略了,一些他本该想到的事情,而是这个论证说不说得通。
The crucial premise since we're giving Plato number one the crucial premise for our purposes is premise number two.
最关键的前提是,我们已经承认了前提一,所以对我们来说最关键的前提是前提二
We continue to ask the same questions that were asked by Plato Machiavelli Hobbes and others.
我们持续提出相同的问题,就像柏拉图,马奇亚维利,贺伯斯,及其它人当时提出时一样。
He was sent to Athens " to study at The Academy, the first university, spoke about and established by Plato.
他被送到雅典,就读于,“柏拉图学院,首座大学,由柏拉图建立与主讲。
Plato's excessive emphasis on unity would seem to destroy the natural diversity of human beings that make up a city.
柏拉图过度地强调和谐,似乎会摧毁,构成城市的自然人性差异。
As a teacher of mine used to say "You read Plato your way " I'll read him his way."
如同我一位老师常说的,“你们以你们的方式阅读柏拉图,我会以他的方式来阅读他“
The idea of having the liberty to say whatever comes to our lips sounds to Plato like a kind of blasphemy.
拥有随意脱口而出,自由的概念,听在柏拉图耳中却像是一种亵渎。
Now, let's say, I'm not really much concerned with whether this was an argument that Plato thought worked or not.
我其实并不太关心,柏拉图本人认为,这个论证是否说得通
But most of the objections to Plato's particular form of the philosophic kingship on the practicality of his idea.
但对柏拉图,特别形式之,哲学王权的异议,在其实践性。
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。
these are at least among the questions that Socrates or Plato, the author of the book, deliberately poses for us to consider.
就是这些问题,这些至少就是苏格拉底或柏拉图,本书作者,所特意提出让我们思考的问题。
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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