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。

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大约时间是九千年前。

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

际此同时少部份人对柏拉图有关 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 柏拉图的《会饮篇》才能理解信中的意思。

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学自然理论。

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完美的事物。

So we reach the end of Plato's Symposium.

我们来到了《会饮篇》的结尾。

Here is then the next argument that Plato offers.

接下来是柏拉图提出的另一个论证。

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

因此，要区分苏格拉底的学说与柏拉图的哲学并不容易。

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

柏拉图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。

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论据来证明。

No new Plato or Aristotle appeared on the scene.

没有新的柏拉图或亚里士多德出。

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

例如，希腊柏拉图学院的学生过去常常树林中学习。

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

柏拉图的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。

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

我们柏拉图的《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的大部分哲学思想。

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柏拉图观念论的批评的实质。

360 BCE Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias introduce the idea of the legendary city of Atlantis.

公元前360年，柏拉图其对话录《提迈奥斯》和《克里蒂亚斯》中提出了传奇城市亚特兰蒂斯的概念。