First published in Plato: Complete Works, Donald J. Zeyl's masterful translation of Timaeus is presented along with his 75 page introductory essay, which discusses points of contemporary interest in the Timaeus, deals at length with long-standing and current issues of interpretation, and provides a consecutive commentary on the work as a whole. Includes an analytic table of contents and a select bibliography.

本书主要关注的是柏拉图的诸多对话与赫西俄德的相互关系，我们的目标不仅仅是为了研究柏拉图哲学中的某些核心思想，同时也是为了促进我们去理解，在这些核心思想成型的古风时代与对其发微的希腊化时代之间，人们对赫西俄德作品的接受。
本书通过研究柏拉图作品中涉及赫西俄德的地方，帮助读者在柏拉图与古希腊诗歌传统的关系上开拓视野。尽管荷马在智术师们的教学法中占有主导地位，但是，赫西俄德则是作为柏拉图教学传统之滥觞中的一个更为明显的部分，因而，我们在阅读柏拉图的作品时一定要参考赫西俄德的诗作。

It hardly needs repeating that Plato defined philosophy partly by contrast with the work of the poets. What is extraordinary is how little systematic exploration there has been of his relationship with specific poets other than Homer. This neglect extends even to Hesiod, though Hesiod is of central importance for the didactic tradition quite generally, and is a major source of imagery at crucial moments of Plato's thought. This volume, which presents fifteen articles by specialists on the area, will be the first ever book-length study dedicated to the subject. It covers a wide variety of thematic angles, brings new and sometimes surprising light to a large range of Platonic dialogues, and represents a major contribution to the study of the reception of archaic poetry in Athens.

20世纪重要的法国思想家柯奈留斯·卡斯托里亚蒂斯经历传奇、身份复杂：出生于君士坦丁堡，成长于雅典，又流亡于法国；是当代欧洲一流的思想家、原创性哲学家、政治理论家、经济学家、精神分析师；也是重要的社会批判家、著名政治团体“社会主义或野蛮”核心人物、苏联问题研究专家、激进分子、革命家以及“全世界左翼的批判良心”；更被一些研究者奉为位列于德勒兹、加塔利、利奥塔、拉克劳、莫菲、德里达等之前的“首位”后马克思主义思想家。
1980年之后，卡斯托里亚蒂斯在巴黎开设了一系列研讨课，探讨希腊思想、哲学史“四伟人”以及人的心灵等哲学史上的重大议题。在1986年的研讨课上，晚年的卡斯托里亚蒂斯面对晚年的柏拉图。卡斯托里亚蒂斯认为，柏拉图是迄今为止“曾经存在过的最伟大的哲学家”。
本书中，他致力于讨论柏拉图最为困难的对话——《政治家篇》。正如帕斯卡尔·维尔奈所言，这场与柏拉图对话所形成的文本，是“哲学‘广场’上的一个惊人的演出片断，在这里，柏拉图与卡斯托里亚蒂斯彼此对峙，各自施展绝顶的智谋，他们的赌注则是：民主制”。
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《政治家篇》可谓柏拉图最为艰涩、乖僻的对话之一，但是卡斯托里亚蒂斯像侦探一般逐字推演，对这有意令人困惑的文本抽丝剥茧，使读者参与到一场清晰的智识对话之中，而这是在他对话柏拉图的同时进行的。
——斯塔西斯·古尔古里斯，哥伦比亚大学教授
人们知道柯奈留斯·卡斯托里亚蒂斯是《社会主义或野蛮》杂志的创办人之一，这份杂志反对一切斯大林主义，坚持工人的自我管理的观念，坚持批判官僚制社会。人们知道他是发表了《社会的想象建制》的哲学家，是研究心理的理论家，是系列著作《迷宫的交叉路口》的作者。人们知道，他天生是希腊人，他熟悉从荷马到亚里士多德的古希腊伟大文本。
人们以前没有见过他对抗最伟大的希腊思想家也是民主制的最清醒的敌人：柏拉图。卡斯托里亚蒂斯在1986年开设的研讨课主要致力于讨论《政治家篇》，讨论这个不如《国家篇》或《法篇》那样著名的文本。在这篇对话中，柏拉图形成了意识形态上的恐怖主义理论，而且把现存的不同政体与哲学王的理想加以对照。
在卡斯托里亚蒂斯面前，柏拉图遇到了一位旗鼓相当的对手。
卡斯托里亚蒂斯从雅典来到巴黎，如同柏拉图对话中出现的外邦人，这个外邦人从大希腊的爱利亚来到雅典，要在雅典成为“真理的教师”，这种真理不是想要窒息自由，而是要促进自由。
——皮埃尔·维达尔－纳盖（Pierre Vidal-Naquet）
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对所有想努力理解这场重要对话的读者而言，这项挑战前人的研究都会给予一份丰厚回馈。
——D.J.马莱茨，俄克拉何马大学
卡斯托里亚蒂斯用语言哲学的方法阐述了一种关于想像制度的理论，大胆地发展了实践哲学。为了重新赋予社会实践概念以革命的爆发力和规范的内涵，卡斯托里亚迪斯不再从表现主义的角度而是从造物的角度，把行为视为绝对新颖、绝对独特的原始创造，而且，每一个创造形式都打开了一个无与伦比的意义视域。
——哈贝马斯《现代性的哲学话语》
在谢世的前一年，卡斯托里亚蒂斯又出版了两部文集，一部叫《无意义之物的升值》(1996)；另一部叫《破碎的世界》(1996)。在他死后，很多人才知道，这个破碎的世界失去了一位冷峻而热情的革命卫士、一位毕生追求人格的真正独立、社会历史的创造性建构、政治民主的完全自主的精神探险者。
——周凡，南开大学哲学系
在卡斯托里亚蒂斯的作品具有的未完成性质中，也许最终存在着某种适当的、具有唤起力量的东西。单纯地同意他的诸多命题，这只会使他成为纪念碑式的人物，而不是成就其伟大。正是在开掘和筛选出卡斯托里亚蒂斯的“疑难、背反、明显的矛盾、异质性的团块”的过程中，在粉粹“现实本身之中起到了实际的阻碍作用”的各种障碍的过程中，我们才能在我们将要创造的土地上奠定新的基础，建造新的大厦，而且或许才能发现他属于2500年来的伟大思想家之列。
——英译者柯蒂斯（David Ames Curtis）

《论柏拉图式的爱——柏拉图〈会饮〉义疏》是在多种译本的基础上整理而来，译者充分尊重原文，将其客观地翻译为现代汉语。本书的出版，当可正本清源，为相关研究者打通障碍、铺平道路，同时也能让国人明了西方文化和基督教语境下爱的根本取向，以及这个取向的可取、限度和局限。

The Parmenides is arguably the pivotal text for understanding the Platonic corpus as a whole. Miller offers a new reading that takes as its key the closely constructed dramatic context and mimetic irony of the dialogue. "Miller's work is a splendid achievement-- original, thorough, clear, deep and exciting. He blends literary sensitivity with analytical precision in a way that helps with just about everything in one of Plato's most obscure and difficult dialogues." ---Edward N. Lee, University of California, San Diego "Miller has much going for him. He has a deep understanding of Greek.... He is careful in following the arguments, and fresh and original in treating them.... We cannot do without Cornford and Allen; we now need Miller alongside them." ---John Ferguson, The Heythrop Journal "The Parmenides is one of the most obscure works in the history of Western thought. Yet this dialogue is of central importance in the development of Plato's theory of Forms, and we should be grateful to Miller for light in the darkness.... highly recommended." ---H.L. Shapiro, Choice ..".one can appreciate why Miller's book is a success; he offers an interpretation according to which the dialogue is a unified piece of work that marks a turning point in Plato's metaphysics. Miller's writing is lucid and straightforward.... There are sustained discussions of Cornford, Cherniss, Vlastos, Owen, Brumbaugh, Allen, and Sayre in the footnotes. There is little doubt that the book represents a significant contribution." ---Kenneth Seeskin, Philosophy and Literature "Miller's commentary is an impressive achievement, combining extensive scholarship with unusual sensitivity to Plato's nuances, both literary and discursive. Both for its imaginative interpretation of the larger issues, and its careful analysis of the details, it will be of great value to anyone with an interest in this bewildering dialogue." ---Kenneth Dorter, Canadian Philosophical Reviews Mitchell H. Miller, Jr. is Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College and author of The Philosopher in Plato's "Statesman" (Martinus Nijhoff, 1980).

Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is uncertain; that he left Athens for a time after Socrates' execution is probable; that later he went to Cyrene, Egypt, and Sicily is possible; that he was wealthy is likely; that he was critical of 'advanced' democracy is obvious. He lived to be 80 years old. Linguistic tests including those of computer science still try to establish the order of his extant philosophical dialogues, written in splendid prose and revealing Socrates' mind fused with Plato's thought.
In Laches, Charmides, and Lysis, Socrates and others discuss separate ethical conceptions. Protagoras, Ion, and Meno discuss whether righteousness can be taught. In Gorgias, Socrates is estranged from his city's thought, and his fate is impending. The Apology (not a dialogue), Crito, Euthyphro, and the unforgettable Phaedo relate the trial and death of Socrates and propound the immortality of the soul. In the famous Symposium and Phaedrus, written when Socrates was still alive, we find the origin and meaning of love. Cratylus discusses the nature of language. The great masterpiece in ten books, the Republic, concerns righteousness (and involves education, equality of the sexes, the structure of society, and abolition of slavery). Of the six so-called dialectical dialogues Euthydemus deals with philosophy; metaphysical Parmenides is about general concepts and absolute being; Theaetetus reasons about the theory of knowledge. Of its sequels, Sophist deals with not-being; Politicus with good and bad statesmanship and governments; Philebus with what is good. The Timaeus seeks the origin of the visible universe out of abstract geometrical elements. The unfinished Critias treats of lost Atlantis. Unfinished also is Plato's last work of the twelve books of Laws (Socrates is absent from it), a critical discussion of principles of law which Plato thought the Greeks might accept.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Plato is in twelve volumes.

巴曼尼得斯篇为柏拉图对话录之一，也被视为最难理解的一篇。对话内容为当时两大哲学家 Parmenides 与 Zeno of Elea的会面，以及年轻的苏格拉底。会面的内容是 Zeno of Elea主张他的一元论而与当时主张多元论的学者相互冲突，这些学者认为一元论当中充斥著荒谬与矛盾。

把柏拉图著作当成戏剧来读，不仅不是时下人们所欣赏的、别出心裁的“创造性背叛”，而恰恰是一种对柏拉图本身的回归。从柏拉图对话的戏剧特征出发去理解柏拉图，既是文本自身构成的要求，也更是进入柏拉图丰富而多元话语系统的前提。既然生活本身不可以一言以蔽之，那么，柏拉图用戏剧而不是用论文来表达自身，也就正是为了更全面、更活生生地呈现问题并提出问题，让大部分人仅仅满足表层生动的故事，让细心而智慧的读者既领悟其中的“微言”也不忽视其“大义“。

本书是施特劳斯对柏拉图的《会饮》做的疏证。讨论了教育与美德、爱、不朽等概念，学会把心灵的美看得比形体的美更加珍贵。由“行为和制度的美”进到知识的美，最后达到历史世界的最高的美。柏拉图用了最辉煌灿烂的词句描写了这种“彻悟美的本体”的人所达到的境界。

《柏拉图注疏集:苏格拉底的申辩》记述的是公元前399年，一个叫莫勒图斯的年轻人在雅典状告哲学家苏格拉底，说他不信城邦诸神，引进新的精灵之事，败坏青年。于是，苏格拉底被传讯，在500人组成的陪审团面前作了著名的申辩。但申辩并没有挽救苏格拉底的性命。他最后被判处死刑。苏格拉底之死和耶稣之死，为西方文明打下了两个基本色调。而苏格拉底之死之所以成为西方哲学史上的核心事件，首先要归功于柏拉图的《苏格拉底的申辩》。