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**普拉图《理想国》（一）：哲人王崛起 (Coursera课程总结)** 本门Coursera课程深入探讨了西方哲学史上赫赫有名的普拉图巨著《理想国》的前五卷。正如20世纪哲学家怀特海所言，西方哲学不过是普拉图思想的注脚，《理想国》更是其思想的集大成之作，然而其深刻性也常常令读者，乃至专业学者感到挑战。 课程将逐一梳理《理想国》每卷的核心人物与议题，着重解答以下关乎人类存在的根本性问题：“什么是正义？”、“为何我们应当追求正义？”以及“理想的社会应当如何构建？”。这些问题在当下依然具有非凡的现实意义。 课程也致力于将普拉图置于其所处的历史语境中进行解读，探讨诸如诗歌和修辞在古希腊教育（παιδεία）中所扮演的角色，以及古希腊文化如何定义卓越或美德（ἀρετή）。我们将特别关注普拉图如何试图通过将神学（灵魂上升至神圣）作为古希腊教育的新中心和目标，来挑战并改革当时的教育体系。 此外，课程还将深入分析普拉图的心理学和政治学思想之间的关联，阐述他如何认为通过审视城邦（polis）的正义性，能够帮助我们理解人类灵魂的内在运行机制。
Plato ranks among the most celebrated philosophers in history. One 20th century thinker, Alfred North Whitehead went so far as to describe Western philosophy as a series of footnotes to Plato. Plato´s Republic in turn is widely regarded as Plato´s greatest and most profound work. Yet, even among professional scholars, the text has proven to be challenging with debates emerging even as to its basic focus. In this course we go through the first five books of Plato´s work one at a time, covering the basic characters and issues of each. Among the issues we will discuss include such fundamental questions as "What is Justice?" and "Why should we be just?" and "What is the good society?". Questions that remain as relevant today as in Plato´s time. We will also endeavor to explain Plato in his own historical context examining issues like the role of poetry and rhetoric in Greek education (παιδεία) and the struggle of Greek culture to define excellence or virtue (ἀρετή). We will look closely at how Plato aims to challenge and reform Greek education by giving it a new center and aim in theology, the ascent of the soul to the divine. We will also look closely at the connections between Plato´s psychological and political ideas, how he thinks examining the justice in the polis can help elucidate the inner cosmos of the human soul.
