Here is then the next argument that Plato offers.

接下来是柏拉图出另一个论证。

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暴民统治制衡。

So we reach the end of Plato's Symposium.

现在我们来到了《会饮篇》结尾。

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

不是说柏拉图出了一套系统哲学自然理论。

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《会饮篇》才能理解信中。

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 群众智慧批评有相同感受。

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论据来证明。

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，要区分苏格拉底学说与柏拉图哲学并不容易。

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。

No new Plato or Aristotle appeared on the scene.

没有新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批判力量。

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 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。

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批评实质。

—. 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“波兰”。

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

另一个值得我们注日期是公元 529 年。那一年教会关闭了雅典柏拉图学院。