Here is then the next argument that Plato offers.

接下来是柏拉图提出的另一。

Plato wouldn't recognize any of these checks against thoughtless mob rule.

柏拉图不会认可这些对欠考虑的暴民统治的制衡。

So we reach the end of Plato's Symposium.

现在我们来到了《会饮篇》的结尾。

Plato's worked out axiomatic views about the nature of philosophy.

不是说柏拉图已经提出了一套系统的哲自然理。

Plato indicates the approximate time of the flooding of Atlantis 9,000 years ago.

柏拉图指出亚特兰蒂斯洪水的时间是在九千年前。

It can only be understood by those who have read the Symposium of Plato.

只有那些读过 柏拉图的《会饮篇》才能理解信中的意思。

At the same time, some share Plato's skepticism about the wisdom of crowds.

际此同时少部份人对柏拉图有关 群众智慧的批评有相同的感受。

Plato's actually going to give us some arguments for pretty much that same claim.

事实上柏拉图会给我们一些相似的据来明。

But Plato's got the idea that there's nothing in this world that's perfectly beautiful.

但是柏拉图认为世界上不存在完美的事物。

So it is no easy matter to distinguish between the teachings of Socrates and the philosophy of Plato.

因此，要区分苏格拉底的说与柏拉图的哲并不容易。

Plato's ideal city seeks a harmonious balance between its individual parts and should be lead by a philosopher king.

柏拉图理想中的城市追求各部分的和谐共生，并且应该由一哲家国王所统治。

No new Plato or Aristotle appeared on the scene.

没有新的柏拉图或亚里士多德出现。

Such is the force of Plato's critique of theatrocracy.

这就是柏拉图对暴政的批判的力量。

Students at Plato's academy in Greece, for instance, used to learn among the trees.

例如，希腊柏拉图院的生过去常常在树林中习。

Plato's doing the same thing here because he's praising something unlikely like madness.

柏拉图在此也是同样的手法，因为他赞扬的是像疯狂这样看似不可能的事物。

But Parmenides explicitly emphasized these distinctions, which became crucial to Plato's philosophy.

但巴门尼德明确强调了这些区别, 这对柏拉图的哲至关重要。

And that is really the essence of Aristotle's criticism of Plato's theory of ideas.

这确实是亚里士多德对柏拉图观念的批评的实质。

—. The Republic of Plato. Translated by Allan Bloom. New York: Basic Books, 1991.

————。柏拉图共和国。艾伦·布鲁姆译。纽：基本书籍，1991 年。

So for example, I have two books here, " The Republic of Plato" , " Poland" by James Michener.

例如，我这里有两本书，“柏拉图共和国”，詹姆斯·米切纳的“波兰”。

Another date we should notice is 529. That was the year when the church closed Plato's Academy in Athens.

另一值得我们注意的日期是元 529 年。那一年教会关闭了雅典的柏拉图院。