克洛诺斯的时间:对柏拉图神话的历史性考察

Cronus Time: A Historical Study on Plato Myth

神话乃是古人解释纷繁复杂的世界和模糊不清的人类起源的一种方式,在柏拉图的著作里,他却以神话之名,行教化之实,用充满浓郁的神性气息和超自然的想象力的笔调,重新组合与编织传统的神话元素。在这个重组编排的过程中,神祇,既成了柏拉图论证其理念现实性的工具,又成了其构建理论的目的。正因为“神”在柏拉图作品中具有双重性,所以在考察其内涵的过程中,只有重返具体的历史语境,从柏拉图面临的时代困境、肩负的时代使命、捍卫的时代观念三个维度出发,才能更好地把握柏拉图思想中的理论张力和历史意义。

Myth is a kind of way for the ancients to illustrate the complicated world and the ambiguous origin of humans. In Plato’s works, in the name of myth, he made the practice of education, and recom-bined and woven the traditional mythological elements in a way full of strong divinity and super-natural imagination. In the process of this reorganization and arrangement, the deity served as not only the tool for Plato to demonstrate the reality of his idea, but the purpose of his theory. Just as “God” has duality in Plato’s works, in the process of studying its connotation, we can get a better understanding of the theoretical tension and historical value in Plato’s thought only by going back to the specific historical context and starting from the study on the three aspects, that is, Plato’s di-lemma, mission and concept of the times.