书籍介绍
Plato (428/427 BC-348/347 BC), whose original name was Aristocles, was an ancient Greek philosopher, the second of the great trio of ancient Greeks - succeeding Socrates and preceding Aristotle - who between them laid the philosophical foundations of Western culture. Plato was also a mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the western world. Plato is widely believed to have been a student of Socrates and to have been deeply influenced by his teacher's unjust death. Plato's brilliance as a writer and thinker can be witnessed by reading his Socratic dialogues. Some of the dialogues, letters, and other works that are ascribed to him are considered spurious. Plato is thought to have lectured at the Academy, although the pedagogical function of his dialogues, if any, is not known with certainty. They have historically been used to teach philosophy, logic, rhetoric, mathematics, and other subjects about which he wrote.
AI导读
核心看点
- 苏格拉底法庭申辩，展现超越生死的哲学骨气。
- 柏拉图笔下苏格拉底形象，兼具智慧与讽刺锋芒。
- 探讨灵魂完善高于肉体生存，奠定西方哲学基石。
适合谁读
- 哲学爱好者，尤其是古希腊哲学与政治哲学读者。
- 对西方文明起源及苏格拉底生平感兴趣的人群。
- 喜欢阅读英文原版经典，追求文学美感与思想深度者。
读前提醒
- 此为英文原版，建议结合中文译本对照阅读以助理解。
- 注意区分苏格拉底本意与柏拉图可能的文学加工。
- 书中充满反讽与辩证，需耐心品味其深层逻辑。
读者共识
- 原文极具文学张力与戏剧性，阅读体验惊艳且震撼。
- 苏格拉底言辞犀利，既显伟大又带居高临下的优越感。
- 不仅是申辩书，更被视为一份深刻的政治哲学宣言。
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。
精彩摘录
- "I admit that I am eloquent. But in how different a way from theirs! because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom;"
- "God only is wise; and by his answer he intends to show that the wisdom of men is worth little or nothing"
- "he, receiving this warning, utterly despised danger and death, and instead of fearing them, feared rather to live in dishonor , and not to avenge his friend For fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a presence of knowing the unknown; and no one knows whether deat"
- "not to thought for your persons or your properties, but first and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. And now I depart hence condemned by you to suffer the penalty of death, - they to condemned by the truth to suffer the penalty of villainy and wrong; and I must abide by my a"
- "What would not a man give if he might converse with Orpheus and Musaeus and Hesiod and Homer? Nay, if this be true, let me die again and again. if they pretend to be something when they are really nothing, - then reprove them"
- "I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows"
- "After the politicians, I went to the poets, the writers of tragedies and dithyrambs and the others, intending in their case to catch myself being more ignorant than they. So I took up those poems with which they seemed to have taken most trouble and asked them what they meant, in order that I might "
用户评论
动人心弦。不只是一篇申辩，更可视为政治哲学宣言，其文采与精彩程度或许只有《共产党宣言》第一章可媲美。苏格拉底根本不是去法庭apology，更似去指责、争辩，激怒雅典民众，英译名反讽意味很强。更多详情可参阅吴飞译的《苏格拉底的申辩》
在the republic被我深切反白眼之后，终于一口气看完了apology, Bravo！Yet，是不是Socrates在默默偷笑，柏拉图又在柏拉图的歌颂
超越生死的申辩太有骨气，穿插苏格拉底独有的阴阳怪气，把自己立于绝对伟光正的形象，又明里暗里地把其他人贬得一无是处。如果我在场，我也会把他投死，然后给他立一座碑，因为他的精神太伟大，他的话语太毒辣，一针一针扎得人无处可逃。
Philosophy
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
2021.9
近2500年前的智者在法庭上的死前申辩，不知道怎么说，就感谢柏拉图的好记性不如烂笔头吧。While I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy. / The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways -- I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
if i start marking these as individual books it’ll get me feeling more accomplished such is the new perspective i’ve bestowed myself
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