外研社双语读库学.书系(英汉对照)

First published in 2000, this translation of one of the great works of Western political thought is based on the assumption that when Plato chose the dialogue form for his writing, he intended these dialogues to sound like conversations - although conversations of a philosophical sort. In addition to a vivid, dignified and accurate rendition of Plato's text, the student and general reader will find many aids to comprehension in this volume: an introduction that assesses the cultural background to the Republic, its place within political philosophy, and its general argument; succinct notes in the body of the text; an analytical summary of the work's content; a full glossary of proper names; a chronology of important events; and a guide to further reading. The result is an accomplished and accessible edition of this seminal work, suitable for philosophers and classicists as well as historians of political thought at all levels.

《政治家:论君王的技艺》内容简介：八年前的初春，我着手适译柏拉图的对话体著述《政治家》。尽管这篇文字的重心如其标题所示在于“政治”，而我当时真正对它发生兴趣却是因为那在对话中被当作散逸的题外话演述的“哲学”。当我在这里同西方哲学史上第一次出现的“中庸”（Medium）范畴相遇时，一种意外而真切的灵觉油然而生。像是蓄聚了许久而渴望燃烧的柴薪撞到了一颗火星，寻路而行的神思在又一次遭逢的幽晦中再度赢得一缕光的烛引。借着“中庸”，我找到了一条洞达“理念”的捷径，它印证了先前我对“理念”出于价值祈求的猜测，也使我就此比勘于孔子的“中庸”之道，闪电般地领悟到所谓“中庸之为德也，其至矣乎”、“天下国家‘可均也，爵禄可辞也，白刃可蹈也，中庸不可能也”一类哲训的微旨。这份让我时时回味的学缘亲切而默然，它曾吐露在我为译文曲初次出版所写序言的如是话语中：“在《政治家》中，由对话过程长短的讨论带出了所谓‘中的标准’或‘中庸’的话题，这对于‘政治家的技艺’说来的题外话，在柏拉图的思想遗产中有着比论主关于政治家技艺的全部结论乃至他用于界说这技艺的二分的方法更重要的价值。它是‘如实’慧从‘方便’之门的透出，借着这一束光的导向，我们可以指望沿着一条能够避免太多歧误的通道进到那幽眇而奇诡的‘理念’世界”。

本书属于政治哲学文库，涉及柏拉图作品另一个重要系统，书信集的解读。书信集中最重要的是书简7，本书为汉语学界第一次按西方古典学规范，对《书简7》的详细解读，对该部文献，作者从版本源流、文献综述、义理解读等各方面加以详细的铺陈和展示，是国内该领域研究的最前沿成果，具有标杆性的意义。