be reading in a week, where Socrates offers

苏格拉底提供了一份精心策划的
an elaborate proposal for the censorship and control of poetry,

有关诗歌审查和控制的提案
if it is to be made compatible with the demands of political justice.

如果其与政治正义要求相一致的话
In fact, in a way you cannot understand the Republic

实际上要想理解《理想国》
unless you understand the poetic backdrop to it

不可不知其歌文学背景
and Socrates' long standing engagement with the poetic tradition

不可不知苏格拉底与诗歌传统
and this back and forth between himself

及前前后后被其称作
and the man he calls this comic poet.

喜剧诗人的人的交锋
The core of this quarrel between the philosopher and the poet,

这场争论在诗歌与哲学之间
between Socrates and Aristophanes is not just an aesthetic judgment

在苏格拉底和阿里斯托芬之间其核心并非单纯的美学判断
or it is not simply an aesthetic quarrel it is,

或者说这并非简单的美学争论
again, deeply political or at least has something very political

这之中有很深的政治含义至少有一些政治东西