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Asking oneself and others what the perfect version of something is, the ideal version, might sound like a strange idea.

What is the perfect marriage or career or system of government or school?

It can feel immature and naive to bother much with such questions.

They're just daydreams.

After all, who cares about ideal versions?

We might as well deal with with what we've got.

But the great ancient

Greek philosopher Plato strenuously disagrees with this.

Throughout his work, he argues

that focusing on the ideal version of something is one of the most useful kinds of thought exercises we can generate.

It's by knowing what we think something should be like

that we can more clearly start to define what might be wrong

and focus on what we need to do to make the world slightly better.

When he was talking about ideals, Plato used a slightly strange but ultimately rather useful word – the forms.

So he asked not what is the ideal friendship or the ideal kind of parental love,

he asked what is the form of friendship or the form of parental love.

It does sound strange but what he had in mind was something very practical.

When a Greek stonemason was carving an ornament, they wouldn't just make it up themselves,

they'd make use of a wooden template or form to check if they were getting it right.

The form itself was made by the master, but if the mason possessed the form, they could more reliably do perfect work.

This is Plato's basic picture of what an ideal is.

It's the guide you need that shows you how to do something well yourself.

If you've got possession of the form, you can be guided towards a true goal.

A form, as Plato sees it, is a blueprint, a set of instructions for making a very good version of something.

That's why we all need a well -thought -through set of forms to guide us in life.

And unsurprisingly, it is philosophy that can guide us to these forms.

So, for example, the form of friendship is a mental model of what a really good friendship actually involves.

And if you grasp this model, if this idea is active in your mind, you will know how to be a good friend.

Similarly, having a form of education in mind is going to be very useful for the teacher.

– it'll stop her being buffeted by events and day -to -day pressures – she'll be able to keep in mind where,

ideally, she should be going.

We've typically thought of ideals as fantasy projections that blithely ignore most of what life is actually like.

We think of them as the opposite of being realistic.

But Plato sees an ideal as the result of a deep understanding and careful engagement with reality.

Someone setting up an airport would need in the platonic scheme to have in mind the ideal air traffic control system,

something optimally effective, efficient and safe.

This is the person who would, in Plato's terms, have grasped the form of air traffic control.

We all need to have as many forms in mind as we possibly can.

Plato is breaking the habitual assumption

that searching for the ideal is at odds with getting things done in the rough and tumble of the real world.

And he's pushing us to be more exacting about where we are trying to head to.

If an ideal seems utterly distant and hopeless, maybe the problem isn't that it's too idealistic,

but in a strange but important way, actually not idealistic enough.

That is, we've not quite yet discovered the form.

We shouldn't abandon our ideals.

We should get more ambitious about them and Plato's philosophy is on hand to help us.

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這節口語課以影片“PLATO ON: The Forms”為素材。影片中反覆出現的詞有：ideal, Plato, version, friendship, strange。這段影片共有 46 個句子、630 個單詞可供跟讀。講話部分時長為 3:30。說話人語速較快，每分鐘約 180 個詞，會出現較多連讀和弱讀。 83% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，其餘的詞建議在練習前先學一下。

影片中的重點詞彙

影片中 15 個值得學習的單詞，附發音和釋義：

單詞	發音	釋義
ideal 形容詞	/aɪˈdi(ə)l/	理想的
friendship 名詞	/ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/	友誼 /友誼, 友情
grasp 動詞	/ɡɹæsp/	把握, 握
ignore 動詞	/ɪɡˈnɔː/	無視 /無視, 忽略
practical 形容詞	/ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl/	使用的, 實用 /實用
argue 動詞	/ˈɑɹ.ɡju/	辯論 /辯論, 爭辯 /爭辯
efficient 形容詞	/ɪˈfɪʃənt/	高效率
odd 形容詞	/ɑd/	奇怪
bother 動詞	/ˈbɑðɚ/	煩擾 /煩擾, 麻煩 /麻煩
discover 動詞	/dɪˈskʌvə/	發現 /發現, 發覺 /發覺
possession 名詞	/pəˈzɛʃn̩/	所有物, 財產 /財產
wooden 形容詞	/ˈwʊdn̩/	木製 /木製
define 動詞	/dɪˈfaɪn/	界定
similarly 副詞	/ˈsɪm.ə.lə.li/	類似地 /類似地, 同樣地 /同樣地
realistic 形容詞	/ˌɹɪəˈlɪs.tɪk/	現實 /現實, 栩栩如生

影片中的語法

說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：

結構	影片中的用法
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	was made · can be guided · being buffeted
現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事	We've typically thought · have grasped

需要注意的發音

說話人用了 11 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 we've, isn't, it'll。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。

“th” 音: bother /ˈbɑðɚ/, blithely /ˈblaɪðli/
“sh” 和 “zh” 音: friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, efficient /ɪˈfɪʃənt/, possession /pəˈzɛʃn̩/, instruction /ɪnˈstɹʌkʃən/, assumption /əˈsʌm(p).ʃ(ə)n/
長單詞——注意重音位置: similarly /ˈsɪm.ə.lə.li/, ideally /aɪˈdi.ə.li/, philosopher /fəˈlɑsəfɚ/, idealistic /ˌaɪ.di.əˈlɪ.stɪk/, habitual /həˈbɪ.t͡ʃʊ.əl/

中文母語者容易讀錯的音：

/v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: discover /dɪˈskʌvə/, involve /ɪnˈvɑlv/, naive /naɪˈiv/, carving /ˈkɑɹvɪŋ/
詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: friendship /ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/, grasp /ɡɹæsp/, efficient /ɪˈfɪʃənt/, odd /ɑd/, engagement /ɪnˈɡeɪd͡ʒ.mənt/
/r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: parental /pəˈɹɛn.təl/, practical /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.kəl/, realistic /ˌɹɪəˈlɪs.tɪk/, blueprint /ˈbluːˌpɹɪnt/

如何用這段影片練習

先完整聽一遍影片，不要開口，記下不認識的單詞。
先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟讀，熟練之後再回到正常速度。
錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 ideal, friendship, grasp 這類單詞。

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