Word: plato
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Literature and Arts C-14: "The Concept of the Hero in Greek Civilization," includes works by "Great Authors" Homer, Plato and Herodotus. Literature and Arts B-51, "First Nights: Five Performance Premieres," includes music by Beethoven and Stravinsky. Literature and Arts A-40, "Shakespeare: the Early Plays," or A-41, including the later plays, take care of The Bard...
...would have updated the department to the methods of contemporary political thought and feminist theory in her work on issues such as subjectivity, legitimacy and identity. Berkowitz, following in the footsteps of his much-maligned conservative comrade Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. '53, would have maintained the living spirit of Plato and Aristotle in political discourse. If President Rudenstine were truly committed to diversity, he would have overlooked the internecine political dissension in the department rather than the candidates themselves in making these tenure decisions. There is a pressing need both for more female Faculty members and for the continuity...
...Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Dante, Copernicus, Shakespeare, Descartes, Newton, Rousseau, Kant, Darwin, Dickens, Tolstoy and Nietzsche...
Actually, it's the central theme of mankind. Indeed, ever since Plato divided the soul into reason, passion and appetite, people have struggled to explain how to become disciples of themselves; they have groped to understand how to use reason--the most venerable of our faculties--to tame our less auspicious features. This relationship is, of course, the answer to the singular question which a humane education should answer: How should I live...
...answer to the question is the life in accordance with reason, how does one attain such a life? Well it can be certain that one doesn't just wake up one day and decide to live according to reason. No, in order to live this life, one must, as Plato's sharpest student Aristotle said (more or less), practice, practice, practice. But as Bennett so wryly notes, this "is the medicine so many people find hard to swallow...