【Crito(35)】
【中译】
因此,请你好好考虑一下,你是否认同这个观点,并把它作为我们讨论的出发点:行不义之事[或“作恶”]永远是不对的,哪怕是以不正义报复不正义、或在遭受伤害时以怨报怨,也永远都是不对的?还是说你并不认同这个观点,拒绝以此为讨论的出发点?而我很久以前就相信这个观点,现在依然如此。但如果你有其他看法,请赐教。如果你仍然坚持我们之前的共识,就请听下一个论点。
克力同:我坚持我们之前的共识,请继续讲吧。
苏格拉底:接下来我要说的是,或者说要问的是:如果一个人与他人约定了要做“正当的事情”,是应当履行,还是可以背弃承诺?
克力同:必须履行。
【英译(Loeb译本)】
Do you therefore consider very carefully whether you agree and share in this opinion, and let us take as the starting point of our discussion the assumption that it is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return. Or do you disagree and refuse your assent to this starting point? For I have long held this belief and I hold it yet, but if you have reached any other conclusion, speak and explain it to me. If you still hold to our former opinion, hear the next point.
Crito. I do hold to it and I agree with you; so go on.
Socrates. Now the next thing I say, or rather ask, is this: “ought a man to do what he has agreed to do, provided it is right, or may he violate his agreements?”
Crito. He ought to do it.
【原文】
49d-e
σκόπει δὴ οὖν καὶ σὺ εὖ μάλα πότερον κοινωνεῖς καὶ συνδοκεῖ σοι καὶ ἀρχώμεθα ἐντεῦθεν βουλευόμενοι, ὡς οὐδέποτε ὀρθῶς ἔχοντος οὔτε τοῦ ἀδικεῖν οὔτε τοῦ ἀνταδικεῖν οὔτε κακῶς πάσχοντα ἀμύνεσθαι ἀντιδρῶντα κακῶς, ἢ ἀφίστασαι καὶ οὐ κοινωνεῖς τῆς ἀρχῆς; ἐμοὶ μὲν γὰρ καὶ πάλαι οὕτω καὶ νῦν ἔτι δοκεῖ, σοὶ δὲ εἴ πῃ ἄλλῃ δέδοκται, λέγε καὶ δίκασκε. εἰ δ᾽ ἐμμένεις τοῖς πρόσθε, τὸ μετὰ τοῦτο ἄκουε.
ΚΡ. Ἀλλ᾽ ἐμμένω τε καὶ συνδοκεῖ μοι· ἀλλὰ λέγε.
ΣΩ. Λέγω δὴ αὖ τὸ μετὰ τοῦτο, μᾶλλον δ᾽ ἐρωτῶ· πότερον ἃ ἄν τις ὁμολογήσῃ τῳ δίκαια ὄντα ποιητέον ἢ ἐξαπατητέον;
ΚΡ. Ποιητέον.
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