Word: plato
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON says that such is the condition, and moreover, that it is inevitable it should be so." A passage from Plato is introduced to describe this conflict of ideas in the individual of which the destruction of previously held moral conceptions in the logical issue, . . . as if it had been written especially for the present generation." After explaining that there are opposing principles, those of justice and honor and those of pleasure, the great Philosopher continues...
...Plato and Tacitus," replied the student...
...Well, if you think you can't get them ready, why don't you change to Sophocles and Thucydides?" suggested the tutor, much to the surprise of the student. "You will find Sophocles much easier than Plato, and Thucydides is only about half as long as Tacitus...
...propose a return to the "old time religion". The CRIMSON says that such is the condition, and moreover, that it is inevitable it should be so. The conflict of ideas in the individual of which the destruction of previously held moral conceptions is the logical issue, was described by Plato and his analysis reads as if it had been written especially for the present generation...
...produce, not scholars merely, but complete men in every sense of the term, men prepared for lives of active leadership in the world. A man of this type has the following characteristics which, lest it be said the CRIMSON is no authority on such matters, are taken directly from Plato...