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

柏拉图不会认可这对欠考虑暴民统治制衡。

In his Republic, Plato imagined a utopia where justice is the ultimate goal.

在他共和国，柏拉图设想了一个理想国存在，在那里，公正是终极目标。

This synthesis of Plato and Christianity was the basis of Western mythology until the Renaissance.

这种柏拉图与基督合是文艺复兴之前西方神话学基础。

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大约时间是在九千年前。

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

只有那读过 柏拉图《会饮篇》才能理解信中意思。

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相似论据来证明。

So we reach the end of Plato's Symposium.

现在我们来到了《会饮篇》结尾。

Students in her class consider anew Plato's allegory of the cave, in which people mistake shadows on a wall for reality.

在她课上，同学们重新解读柏拉图洞穴寓言，洞穴里人们将墙上影子误认为现实。

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 群众慧批评有相同感受。

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哲学自然理论。

Here is then the next argument that Plato offers.

接下来是柏拉图提出另一个论证。

She'd been schooled on Plato's Theory of Forms, which dismissed the physical world as a flawed reflection of higher truths and unchanging ideals.

她接受过柏拉图形式论育，该理论将物质世界视为对更高真理和不变理想有缺陷反映。

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事物。

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

柏拉图理想中城市追求各个部分和谐共生，并且应该由一个哲学家国王所统治。

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

因此，要区分苏格拉底学说与柏拉图哲学并不容易。

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

例如，希腊柏拉图学院学生过去常常在树林中学习。

Plato's student, Aristotle, was even more vocal in his support of slavery.

柏拉图学生亚里士多德更是直言支持奴隶制。

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

柏拉图在此也是同样手法，因为他赞扬是像疯狂这样看似不可能事物。

We ran into this in the laws, in Plato's laws.

我们在柏拉图《法律篇》中遇到过这个问题。

This view is against most of philosophy from Plato forward.

这一观点反对从柏拉图以来大部分哲学思想。