柏拉圖著作集2

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《柏拉圖著作集2(英文本)》作者班傑明·喬伊特（Benjamin Jowett，1817-1893），牛津大學教授，19世紀英國傑出的古典學學者，以翻譯和研究古希臘哲學著作知名。喬伊特所譯柏拉圖著作英譯本首次出版於1871年，收錄柏拉圖絕大部分作品，迄今為止是由同一人所譯的篇幅最多、最完整的英譯本。

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班傑明·喬伊特（Benjamin Jowett，1817—1893），牛津大學教授，19世紀英國傑出的古典學學者，以翻譯和研究古希臘哲學著作知名。喬伊特所譯柏拉圖著作英譯本首次出版於1871年，收錄柏拉圖絕大部分作品，迄今為止是由同一人所譯的篇幅最多、最完整的英譯本。百餘年來，該譯本經多次再版，廣為傳播，為柏拉圖著作的研究和闡釋作出了歷史性的貢獻，至今仍具有獨特的文學魅力和學術價值。

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Introducion
Gorgias
Introducion
Symposium
Introducion
Euthpyhro
Introducion
Apology
Introducion
Crito
Introducion
Phaedo
Introducion
Appendix
Introducion
Lesser Hippies
Introducion
Alcibiades Ⅰ
Introducion
Menexenus

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The idealizing of suffering is one of the conceptions which have exercised the greatest influence on mankind. Into the theological import of this, or into the consideration of the errors to which the idea may have given rise, we need not now enter. All will agree that the ideal of the Divine Sufferer, whose words the world would not receive, the man of sorrows of whom the Hebrew prophets spoke, has sunk deep into the heart of the human race. It is a similar picture of suffering goodness which Plato desires to portray, not without an allusion to the fate of his master Socrates. He is convinced that, somehow or other, such a one must be happy in life or after death. In the Republic, he endeavours to show that his happiness would be assured here in a well-ordered state. But in the actual condition of human things the wise and good are weak and miserable; such a one is like a man fallen among wild beasts, exposed to every sort of wrong and obloquy. Plato, like other philosophers, is thus led on to the conclusion, that if 'the ways of God' to man are to be 'justified', the hopes of another life must be included. If the question could have been put to him, whether a man dying in torments was happy still, even if, as he suggests in the Apology, 'death be only a long sleep', we can hardly tell what would have been his answer. There have been a few, who, quite independently of rewards and punishments or of posthumous reputation, or any other influence of public opinion, have been willing to sacrifice their lives fbr the good of others. It is difficult to say how far in such cases an unconscious hope of a future life, or a general faith in the victory of good in the world, may have supported the sufferers. But this extreme idealism is not in accordance with the spirit of Plato. He supposes a day of retribution, in which the good are to be rewarded and the wicked punished（522e）. Though, as he says in the Phaedo, no man of sense will maintain that the details of the stories about another world are true, he will insist that something of the kind is true, and will frame his life with a view to this unknown future. Even in the Republic he introduces a future life as an afterthought, when the superior happiness of the just has been established on what is thought to be an immutable foundation.

柏拉圖著作集2

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