《沉思录·卷七·痛苦与忍受》第45条
For thus it is, men of Athens, in truth: wherever a man has placed himself thinking it the best place for him, or has been placed by a commander, there in my opinion he ought to stay and to abide the hazard, taking nothing into the reckoning, either death or anything else, before the baseness [of deserting his post]. See Aristophanes, Acharnenses, v. 661. From the Apologia, c. 16. From the Apologia, c. 16.
注释摘要
这段话出自柏拉图的《申辩篇》，是苏格拉底在雅典法庭上为自己辩护时说的话。他在解释为什么自己不会因为怕死而放弃哲学使命。苏格拉底说的是：一个成年人选择站在某个位置上，或者被指挥官指定了岗位，他就该待在那里面对危险，心里只盘算什么是可耻，而不把死亡或任何其他事放在羞耻之前来衡量。这里的“指挥官”原本是军事比喻，苏格拉底把它转用到道德领域，意思是神指派他过一种省…