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...appear an artificial and arbitrary extraction.Most importantly, perhaps, we owe our understanding of philosophy to the Greeks who developed it and the Latins who preserved it for us somewhat intact. The metaphysics and natural science first discoursed upon in Plato’s Academy and Aristotles’s Lyceum laid the basis for modern rational thought and technological progress. These philosophers also first presented to us the problem of politics as we know it. “What is the best political regime?” and “What is the best way of life...
Lincoln expected that America would become a nation doubtful about its heroes and its history. In his astonishing address to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Ill., on Jan. 27, 1838, on "the perpetuation of our political institutions," the 28-year-old Lincoln foresaw the inevitable rise in a modern democracy like ours of skepticism and worldliness. Indeed, he worried about the fate of free institutions in a maturing nation no longer shaped by a youthful, instinctive and (mostly) healthy patriotism...
...find ourselves in a situation oddly similar to the one Lincoln faced in 1838. Lincoln delivered his Lyceum Address 62 years after the Declaration of Independence. We are now the same time span from the end of World War II. Our victory in that war--followed by our willingness to quickly assume another set of burdens in the defense of freedom against another great tyranny--marked the beginning of the U.S.'s role as leader of the free world. Through all the ups and downs of the cold war and through the 1990s and this decade, the memories of World...
...Affairs and Development, both said Scudder’s decision to leave was announced over a month ago. But the Boston Herald reported this week that his new firm will be called Aria Asset Management and will include fund managers Karen Firestone from Fidelity Investments and Nathaniel Jeppson from Lyceum Capital...
...Play What I Wrote", a big hit in London now making its Broadway debut (at the Lyceum), stars the British comedy team of Sean Foley and Hamish McColl, who also co-wrote this comedy, which pays tribute to another comedy team, Morecambe and Wise, who were a hit on British TV in the 1970s. All these names mean a lot more to audiences in London than they do in America, which is why some figured "The Play What I Wrote" would not be able to survive the trip across the pond. As far as I'm concerned, it hasn...