诗歌和哲学是人类心智的两个极端,都是特别容易被误读为某种绝对性和自足性的东西,但这可能恰恰是因为,在它们看似完全对立的心智运作方式背后,都有一个看起来大而无当,因而容易被无视的目标:理解和肯定世界的整全性。或许正因如此,它们需要存在于与这个世界若即若离的某个极点上。因此,当人们说古希腊人生活在《荷马史诗》的世界里时,并不算是一种太过夸张的说法;而施特劳斯就是从柏拉图对话的戏剧性结构和情节,而不是从其概念化表述和哲学主题当中,来解读伟大 Poetry and philosophy are the two extremes of human mind, and they are all things that are particularly easily misinterpreted as being of a certain absoluteness and self-sufficiency, but this may be precisely because behind the seemingly diametrically opposed modes of mental functioning A seemingly monstrous, easily overlooked goal: to understand and affirm the wholeness of the world. Perhaps because of this, they need to exist at a certain pole that is at a loss to this world. Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that ancient Greeks lived in the world of Homer’s epic, and that Strauss is the dramatic structure and plot of Dialogue from Plato rather than from Conceptualization and philosophical themes, to interpret the great