Word: plato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generations, Russell's skeptical prejudices have had their share in depopulating the church in Britain; now he can occasionally be seen looking in its direction with the suspicion that perhaps that is where the body of ethics lies buried. His refutation of Plato's ethics, which tended to equate virtue with knowledge, is a case in point. Men who know most, suggests Russell (who knows a great deal), are not necessarily the best...
...George Palmer's Nature of Goodness, and some of the classics like Mill's Utilitarianism and On Liberty, Aristotle's Politics and Ethics and selections from Plato's Republic...
...greatest thinker of all time. Would you say Plato...
...would say Plato in general. Of course it is hard to rank them. Some are significant in some things, and others in other things...
...your books you emphasize action. Don't you think that mysticism is sometimes very important? Has not some of the best good been given to the world by some mystics like Christ, Plato, Emerson, and certain oriental philosophers...