Word: plato
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...race of students bereft of all but a slight acquaintance with the Greek and Latin authors prescribed by the College Board Examinations, he discovers Herodotus, Thucydides, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Plato and Aristotle to us as living men. There comes with him a realization of what we have missed in escaping from the classical tradition...
...published the following works, including "Riddles of the Sphinx", "Plato or Protagoras?", "Humanism", and "Tantalus, or the Future of Man", He is a member of the Royal Society...
...Like Plato, Il Duce would educate the governors apart from the governed. An aristocratic class would thus almost automatically be established, with membership consisting of the alumni of Mussolini's college. There would be opportunity for another black shirtail genius to arise and seize the reins of state. Wise is Mussolini wise and blessed with foresight. Having an available position he does not intend to lose it through the ambitions and personality of some upstart. But other men have tried to place walls around the throne and they have failed. Now has tried it perhaps in exactly the method...
...romancist. She is off center (How many miles is it to Bucharest?), she is fickle, and she is expressive of her own views, virtues, and vertigoes. Jean J. Rousseau would adore her as he left for the zoo; Gauter would sing of her as he polished his waistcoat buttons; Plato would not believe she existed; and Aristotle would give up his chair of comparative literature. Horace might add that in the consulship of Marcellus women did'nt make quite such a disturbance. Yes, this lady from the Balkans is romantic to the core. And so is the Fourth Estate...
...philosophy is one approach to what Plato would call the Universal. There are those for whom it is the only approach. But others must gain their open sesame to, or glimpse of the Universal by means of their own ability which may not be philosophical at all. Furthermore, a Vermont herdsman may have reached such a philosophy without ever hearing the best lectures of the most synthetic mind. College or university must exist for more than this. Mr. Aswell sees things too clearly. His college would be too efficient, too limited in perspective...