作者簡介
謝善元 Shan-yuan Hsieh
生於上海。1949 遷至台灣,在台灣完成大學教育,考取美國富布萊特奬學金,就讀美國芝加哥大學,1972年取得博士學位。曾在加拿大及美國幾所大學教授中國歷史、政治和哲學。
Born in Shanghai in 1936, he moved to Taiwan before 1949 and got his college education there. With the help of a Fulbright Scholarship, he came to the U.S., studied at the University of Chicago, and earned his Ph.D. in 1972. After teaching Chinese history and philosophy for about ten years, he retired. Feeling that none of available translations of Plato's Republic was fully satisfactory, he turned Paul Shorey's work into Chinese in 2009. Then, stylistically, he used the dialogues between himself and his two young students as the basic material and wrote the Dragon Bones and Dao.