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...larger tradition of which the authors were knowingly partaking would 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...
...reality, his creations stand like fragmented prompts for the reader to consider rather than a set of answers neatly handed to her on a platter. Millhauser’s characters wade through his stories thirsting to perceive a world beyond the limitations of their senses and their environment, like Plato??s cave dwellers striving to conceptualize an unseen world. The key to this—or, rather, the key to one of the many consecutive locked doors leading to this—seems to be that of painstaking observation: unlocking the imagination lies in seeing, hearing, and feeling...
...community, have a responsibility to look out for one another as best we can. Harvard students are, and should be, praised for their focus on achievement; however, this focus often comes at the expense of our solidarity and ability to support one another. We would do well to remember Plato??s advice, “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” The strength and competence that we sometimes project can mask feelings of inadequacy, depression, and even suicidal thoughts...
Rorty locates the original sin of western philosophy in Plato??s concept of mimesis, the idea that our experience of the world is a more or less opaque manifestation of the real world—which can conveniently only be accessed by philosophers. Rorty lauds the German Idealists and the Romantic poets for their rejection of external reality, but, in their fetishization and spiritualization of the Self, he sees mere Platonic claptrap. In Rorty’s view, humans and the world have no fixed essence or meaning. Instead, they are in perpetual flux, constantly dissolved and recreated...
...hallmark program religiously. “I am a huge fan,” he said. “I watch it on YouTube.” Stereotypical Harvard types—including a guy with his glasses taped together Harry-Potter style and a man who read Plato??s “Protagoras and Meno,” throughout a good chunk of the show—and more random visitors alike seemed to enjoy it, cheering and laughing throughout According to the show’s website, the fourth season will debut online next week...