for the tedious business of legislation and public administration?

为了冗长的立法和公共事务吗
The philosopher is described by Plato

柏拉图描述的哲学家
as someone with knowledge of the eternal forms,

是获知永恒的知识理念
lying behind or beyond the many particulars.

那些理念深藏于并高于众多的特殊
But just how does that kind of knowledge

但是这种知识是如何
help us deal with the constant ebb and flow of political life?

帮助我们处理政治生活的潮起潮落
It seems not enough that the philosopher have knowledge of the forms

哲学家们似乎都有足够的关于理念的知识
but this knowledge has to be supplemented by experience,

但是这种知识必须有足够的经验支撑
by judgment and by a kind of practical rationality.

通过判断和某种实践理性
Was Plato simply unaware of this, I can't believe that.

柏拉图仅是忽略了这点吗我不相信
I don't believe that.

我实在不能相信
So the question is, what kind of unity was he expecting

所以问题是他期望的统一形式是什么呢