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Introduction and Analysis.
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The Republic of Plato is the longest of his works with the exception of the Laws, and is certainly the greatest of them. There are nearer approaches to modern metaphysics in the Philebus and in the Sophist; the Politicus or Statesman is more ideal; the form and institutions of the State are more clearly drawn1 out in the Laws; as works of art, the Symposium2 and the Protagoras are of higher excellence3. But no other Dialogue of Plato has the same largeness of view and the same perfection of style; no other shows an equal knowledge of the world, or contains more of those thoughts which are new as well as old, and not of one age only but of all. Nowhere in Plato is there a deeper irony4 or a greater wealth of humour or imagery, or more dramatic power. Nor in any other of his writings is the attempt made to interweave life and speculation5, or to connect politics with philosophy. The Republic is the centre around which the other Dialogues may be grouped; here philosophy reaches the highest point (cp, especially in Books V, VI, VII) to which ancient thinkers ever attained6. Plato among the Greeks, like Bacon among the moderns, was the first who conceived a method of knowledge, although neither of them always distinguished7 the bare outline or form from the substance of truth; and both of them had to be content with an abstraction of science which was not yet realized. He was the greatest metaphysical genius whom the world has seen; and in him, more than in any other ancient thinker, the germs of future knowledge are contained. The sciences of logic8 and psychology9, which have supplied so many instruments of thought to after-ages, are based upon the analyses of Socrates and Plato. The principles of definition, the law of contradiction, the fallacy of arguing in a circle, the distinction between the essence and accidents of a thing or notion, between means and ends, between causes and conditions; also the division of the mind into the rational, concupiscent, and irascible elements, or of pleasures and desires into necessary and unnecessary — these and other great forms of thought are all of them to be found in the Republic, and were probably first invented by Plato. The greatest of all logical truths, and the one of which writers on philosophy are most apt to lose sight, the difference between words and things, has been most
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logic
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doctrine
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incongruity
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hymn
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| manly(有男子气概的)的比较级形式 | |
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| 衰退,堕落,退化( degenerate的第三人称单数 ) | |
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| 美德( virtue的名词复数 ); 德行; 优点; 长处 | |
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absurdity
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chronological
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platonic
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discrepancies
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judgment
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antiquity
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| 公开声称的,伪称的,已立誓信教的 | |
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ethical
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relatively
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tyrants
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| 专制统治者( tyrant的名词复数 ); 暴君似的人; (古希腊的)僭主; 严酷的事物 | |
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philosophical
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attic
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elicited
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| 引出,探出( elicit的过去式和过去分词 ) | |
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| 逮捕,拘押( apprehend的现在分词 ); 理解 | |
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