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

不会认可这些对欠考虑的暴民统治的制衡。

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

指出亚特兰蒂斯洪水的大约时间是在九千年前。

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

际此同时少部份人对有关 群众智慧的批评有相同的感受。

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

只有那些读过 的《会饮》理解信中的意思。

Here is then the next argument that Plato offers.

接下来是提出的另一个论证。

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

事实上会给我们一些相似的论据来证明。

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

不是说已经提出了一套系统的哲学自然理论。

So we reach the end of Plato's Symposium.

现在我们来到了《会饮》的结尾。

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

但是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，要区分苏格底的学说与的哲学并不容易。

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

理想中的城市追求各个部分的和谐共生，并且应该由一个哲学家国王所统治。

No new Plato or Aristotle appeared on the scene.

没有新的或亚里士多德出现。

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

例如，希腊学院的学生过去常常在树林中学习。

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

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的事物。

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

这就是对暴政的批判的力量。

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, 这对的哲学至关重要。

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观念论的批评的实质。

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

另一个值得我们注意的日期是公元 529 年。那一年教会关闭了雅典的学院。

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，“共和国”，詹姆斯·米切纳的“波兰”。

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

————。共和国。艾伦·布鲁姆译。纽约：基本书籍，1991 年。