Word: plato
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Quayle, the Cliff's Notes to works of Plato...
...rest of the world is thinking and doing is irrelevant: as long as we've read our book, thought about it and found our own piece of truth, who cares what the rest of humanity is up to? Of course, it is perfectly possible to read any book from Plato to Joseph Campbell with the rest of humanity in mind; it's just that it's a lot easier to read it with only the book itself in mind...
Khomeini was educated as a scholar in Qum, the holy city where he worked as a teacher, married and reared a family of six children. An excellent instructor, he was fascinated by the Greek philosophers, especially Plato, whose Republic provided the Ayatullah with a model for his own concept of the ideal state, in which the philosopher-king was replaced by the Islamic theologian...
...longer would a Harvard graduate, it was reasoned, earn his or her diploma without encountering the reasoning--if not the works--of thinkers such as Plato and Shakespeare, Newton and Picasso, Bolivar and Machiavelli...
...humanitarian conservatism is more than just a philosophy of noblesse oblige applied to a bourgeois capitalist setting. It seeks to show that while the ideal worlds of Plato, Marx and the socialists might make great places to live (and maybe not), this is an imperfect world...