Word: plato
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...Friedrich's specialties was comparative government and history, said retired Professor Arthur Maass, who was a close friend of the scholar's. Instead of concentrating on such traditional authors as Locke and Plato, Friedrich treated concepts, including authority and liberty, comparing the theory and practice of all types of government, Maass added...
Even in ancient Greece the Olympics were used as an instrument of international politics. Plato wrote that an ideal Greek state "should send as many athletes as possible to the Games, and the best that can be found, for they will make the city renowned at holy meetings in times of peace, procuring a glory which shall be a counterpart to that which is gained in war; and when they come home, they shall teach the young that the institutions of other states are second-rate when compared to their...
...campuses from Maui to Massachusetts, more than 45,000 seniors are going back to school this summer. They are studying everything from quasars to Hawaiian quilt-making, Plato to paleobiology. Some are traveling to archaeological sites in Israel; others are bird watching in Virginia. They may wake up stiff after sleeping on cots and feel even less comfortable about communal bathrooms. Like other college students, they undoubtedly grouse about cafeteria food. But there is one big difference between these seniors and the ones who donned caps and gowns a month or so ago: their average...
...debated among the ancient Greeks, until philosophers like Democritus and Plato concluded correctly that the pain-perception center is the brain. Greek scientists found support for this theory by discovering that the brain is connected to a network of two types of nerve fibers, one set controlling motion, the other, sensation. This knowledge was lost in the Middle Ages, and superstition again took hold. Only when taboos against dissection were lifted during the Renaissance did thinkers like Leonardo da Vinci once again understand pain in terms of the nervous system...
...pursuit of political philosophy has led some men far afield it took Plato to Syracuse. Rousseau to Geneva, and Marx to London. For Michael J. Sandel, it has led from the halls of Oxford University to the Soldiers Field softball diamond...