Word: plato
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this book is set forth very clearly the doctrines of restraint, good taste, and rounded living that are, of all that Greece produced, of the most use to us today. Sometimes one feels that we are hearing a little too learned a disquisition of the Republic of Plato, or of Aristotle's more abstract theories, but such moments are well balanced by detailed and very interesting descriptions of the practical, lived philosophy of the everyday Greek. And much of this is material that the average course of instruction, for instance, does not bother to tell us. Thus a whole section...
...Shaw Jeaves no doubt as to what he its be terms himself a dramatic realist. His works show the effects of his reading of Plato, for be desires that every one be made an aristocrat. He maintains that education has little to do with the matter of acquiring table manners, except dress, and that outward show which aristocracy presents. Every one should acquire these attributes according...
...Shaw's ideas of marriage as shown in "Man and Superman". Here we have the highly intelligent woman who seeks and-finds the man most suited to be her husband. Every person was to select the right mate and in this way society's ills would be cured. Plato proposed that the upper class should rule and that this class should be encouraged to have many children, and thus to raise the standard of the race. That is Shaw's idea. He wants the world to be placed on the plane of absolute equality of marriage...
...Works of Plato," edited by Benjamin Jowett, printed from Harper & Brothers plates on fine paper bound in strong red cloth with paper labels may be had for &7.35 postpaid...
...Grant and Mark Twain. On the other hand: Lincoln, Greeley, Wilson, Roosevelt, Wellington, Balzac, Goethe, Tolstoi, Ruskin, Haeckel, Bacon, Whittier, etc. Obviously, tobacco can have had no beneficial effect other than from habit on the great deeds of the world, for the foundations of civilization were laid, and Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Caesar, Dante, and many more lived and wrought before Raleigh brought the weed to the Old World. This type of evidence has no scientific value, no statistical basis, and is of interest only as a revelation of personalities and of the fact that no dogmatic statement can be predicated...