Word: plato
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This argument ranks with the typical argument against censorship. Once one bans sadomasochistic homosexual child pornography, it is said, it won't be long before you're banning Plato...
...heard it said that it is not difficult to distinguish Playboyfrom Plato. I cannot imagine that it is much more trouble distinguishing between Hitler and Lincoln...
...Paris fire brigade, that infested beaux arts academic painting.) Cachin and her colleagues have dredged up an astounding panoply of period kitsch, from 1850s imitators of Ingres through Bouguereau to what must be the most obsessively pederastic elocution in all art history, Jean Delville's School of Plato, featuring Alcibiades and his willowy friends yearning like blessed damsels at the lucky philosopher in a landscape full of wisteria and white peacocks. Woven through these galleries are some of the most deliriously awful canvases of the 19th century, marvels of the salon in their day, high-finance porn of the ripest...
Quoting the French philospoher Rousseau, Lloyd said that "Plato had abolished the feminine sphere and that actually men and women differ in mind...
Lloyd argued that the liberal feminist view of equality hails back to the ideas of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, who believed "the world was gender neutral and that men should extend ideals to actually include women...