柏拉图传世书信中篇幅最长的一封。
从自传式的《第七封信》中可以看出,柏拉图在青年时期热衷于政治,希望能参加政治事务,公正地治理城邦,但是实际经验告诉他,包括雅典在内的所有城邦都不能做到这一点。最后,他认为只有在正确的哲学指导下才能分辨正义和非正义,只有当哲学家成为统治者,或者当政治家成为真正的哲学家时,城邦治理才能是真正公正的。
The Seventh Letter of Plato is an epistle that tradition has ascribed to Plato. It is by far the longest of the epistles of Plato and gives an autobiographical account of his activities in Sicily as part of the intrigues between Dion and Dionysius of Syracuse for the tyranny of Syracuse. It also contains an extended philosophical interlude concerning the possibility of writing true philosophical works and the theory of forms. Assuming that the letter is authentic, it was written after Dion was assassinated by Calippus in 353 BC and before he was in turn overthrown a year later.
- THE SEVENTH LETTER
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