《柏拉图对话集:美学卷(英文版)》所选各篇均配有英国著名古典学家本?乔伊特撰写的导言，既对古希腊社会生活概貌有生动的介绍，又清晰地勾勒出柏拉图学说的基本构架。对学者的入门有十分重要的指导意义。
柏拉图(Plato)(424/423BC-348/347BC),was a Classical Greek philosopher,mathematician,student of Socrates,writer of philosophical dialogues,and founder of the Academy in Athens,the first institution of higher learning in the Western world,just as A.N.Whitehead says:
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.I do not mean the systematic scheme of thought which scholars have doubtfully extracted from his writings.I allude to the wealth of general ideas scattered through them.
PLATO HAD a love-hate relationship with the arts.He must have had some love for the arts,and his influence on western culture generally is a very strong one,and theories of art.
Beauty,Justice,and Circle are all examples of what Plato called Forms or Ideas.For Plato,these Forms are perfect Ideals,but they are also more real than physical objects.He called them"the Really Real",so art is imitation,and the best human life is one that strives to understand and to imitate the Forms as closely as possible.
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