Word: plato
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...head. The play deals with a recurrent flaw in the Greek ideal. Martha Nussbaum, in her profound study of ancient Greek ethical standards, The Fragility of Goodness, argues that self-sufficiency was a standard for the city that individuals tried to appropriate for themselves, with tragic results. Even Plato came to realize that he had sealed his Socrates off from human feeling by making him so independent of others. Later, he tried to rescue his Socrates from the fault of perfection, allowing him a bit of (measured) love for others and dependence on them. Desire, he conceded, must drive...
...anniversary." Monette comes across as a trendy Southern California transplant. There is lots of eating out in fashionable restaurants, foreign travel and a Jaguar whose transmission frequently does not work. While conscientiously caring for the dying Roger, Monette works on a film script titled The Manicurist. He reads Plato and writes a novelization of Arnold Schwarzenegger's movie Predator...
...years ago when several faculty members proposed to amend the required freshman reading list of 15 classics in order to include works by minority and female authors. The issue escalated into a national debate when Education Secretary William Bennett jumped into the fray to accuse the reformers of "trashing Plato and Shakespeare." Six weeks ago, in a deft compromise, Stanford's faculty senate voted to pare the required list to six classics plus at least one non-European work chosen by the individual professor with "substantial attention to issues of race, gender and class...
...depth of Bennett's biases is exhibited by his claim that the aim of Stanford's "Cultures, Ideas, and Values"--studying works by and concerning women and minorities alongside established Western masterpieces--"Trivializes the entire purpose" of education. The Bible and the thoughts of Plato naturally deserve study, but such texts as the Koran and the writings of Confucius can not be ignored, presenting new perspectives, and representing major literary and spiritual schools of thought. The fact that this country's Secretary of Education believes that societies and groups outside of mainstream Western life do not merit study by American...
...Stanford's faculty senate voted 39-4 for a compromise revision of their canon. This fall the original 15 books, all of them written by white, Western males, will be pared down. Out goes Homer, as well as Darwin and Dante. The six new requirements are unspecified works from Plato, the Bible, St. Augustine, Machiavelli, Rousseau and Marx. Next year Stanford's Western Culture Program will be formally replaced by CIV. All freshmen will read works "from at least one" non-European source chosen by the professor, who is required to give "substantial attention to issues of race, gender...