Day121|苏格拉底:质问人们对常用抽象词汇了解多少

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The Story of Philosophy的第121句:第1章Plato第2节II. Socrates第6段第3句:

So he went about prying into the human soul, uncovering assumptions and questioning certainties. If men discoursed too readily of justice, he asked them, quietly, tò tí—what is it? What do you mean by these abstract words with which you so easily settle the problems of life and death? What do you mean by honor, virtue, morality, patriotism? What do you mean by yourself? It was with such moral and psychological questions that Socrates loved to deal. Some who suffered from this “Socratic method,” this demand for accurate definitions, and clear thinking, and exact analysis, objected that he asked more than he answered, and left men’s minds more confused than before. Nevertheless he bequeathed to philosophy two very definite answers to two of our most difficult problems— What is the meaning of virtue? and What is the best state?
浙江大学译本:这些抽象的词汇在你这里代表着什么,以至于你能用它们如此轻易地解释生与死?

解析

这句话进一步质问人们习以为常的抽象词汇的意思。
1、 What do you mean by these abstract words
质问:抽象词汇指的是什么?

2、with which you so easily settle the problems of life and death?
抽象词汇的作用:用来轻松解决生死问题

这些被你用来如此轻松解决生死问题的抽象词汇指的是什么呢?

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