Word: plato
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...Barkouras had ambitions to transform psychoanalytic theory. He developed a set of theories that castigate Freud's approach as too narrow to account for human behavior. The Barkouras doctrine integrates some Freudian concepts with ideas from philosophers like Plato and Heidegger. Two samples of Barkouras' insights: "Man is the eventfulness of life" and "Neurosis is attractive but health is irresistible." According to Barkouras, many mental patients are not ill, only confused. In 1976, at a convention of the Oklahoma State Psychological Association, some 1,000 professionals assembled to hear his theories, which were hailed by then Governor David...
...Plato said that man kind never discovers anything new, but comes into the world knowing subconsciously all that can be known and simply exhumes it in a remembering process called anamnesis. In a variety of fields-educational, moral political, social-anamnesis is busy these days dredging the pools. The process is not the same as the Moral Majority thundering its "Live clean...
...lots of cream pies; a filmed retelling of the Little Red Riding Hood legend, with Cleese as Ms. Hood and the rest as seedy rapists; and best of all, another filmed skit wherein the German philosophers (Hegel, Heidegger, Nietzsche, et. al.) played soccer against the Greek philosophers (Socrates, Plato, Archimedes, etc.). In appropriate costumes, they dashed onto the field and fell immediately into deep personal contemplation, until Archimedes yelled "Eureka!" and scored. The Germans disputed the goal, claiming it may have existed only in the imagination ... you get the picture...
...There are 298,000 federal civilian workers in the Washington area today, compared with 2,200 in Lincoln's time. These hordes are attended in various ways by lobbyists, lawyers, accountants, special interest groups, consultants and journalists, all in vast numbers. The number of lawyers alone would drive Plato to despondency. Ever since Government started going after business, business started hiring lawyers. In July 1973 there were 10,925 attorneys listed as members of the District of Columbia bar. Two months ago, the count was up to 33,457. Naturally, the number of offices has also shot...
...city--helping people find jobs, sponsoring charity, publishing newspapers and organizing debates, concert plays. In 1854, Father Lawrence Carroll, pastor of St. John's started the "St. John's Literary Institute" in a loft above a butcher shop on Bridge St. While the scholars at Harvard debated Plato and Locke at one end of town, grown men learned the fundamentals of spelling and arithmetic at the other. Members of the Institute helped found a library, for many years the only one in East Cambridge...