深夜里看到這段,灰常震撼。
建議看英文版。朱翻譯得其實還可以。但是英文的語境貌似更貼切。
A man is called the same,and yet in the short interval which elapses between youth an age,and in which every animal is said to have life and identity,he is undergoing a perpetual process of loss and reparation—hair,flesh,bones,blood,and the whole body are always changing.Which is true not only for body,but also for soul,whose habits,tempers,opinions,desires,pleasures,pains,fears,never remain the same in any one of us,but are always coming and going;and equally true of knowledge,and what is still more surprising to us mortals,not only do the sciences in general spring up and decay,so that in respect of them we are never the same;but each of them individually experiences a like change.For what is implied in the word "recollection",but the departure of knowledge,which is ever being forgotten,and is renewed and preserved by recolletion,and appears to be the same although in reality new,according to that law of succession by which all mortal things are preserved,not absolutely the same,but by substitution,the old worn-out mortality leaving another new and similar existence behind unlike the divine,which is always the same and not another?And in this way,Socrates,the mortal body,or mortal anything,partakes of immortality,but the immortality in another way.Marvel ont then at the love which all men have of their offsprings,for that universal love and interest is for the sake of immortality.