Word: plato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ability of poets to be critics of their own work, going back to Plato, is always a dubious enterprise," said Eric S. Downing, Loeb associate professor of the humanities...
...common with the last best seller about a motorcycle trip, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. The author of that one, Robert Pirsig, drives across the West, searching for his inner self and trying to find the meaning of life while tinkering with his engine parts. He quotes Plato and says things like "to travel is better than to arrive." Never once does he mention a single stock or a bond...
Thirty years ago a liberal arts education was defined by the Western canon. The University felt it had a mission to ensure that no student would leave Harvard without a strong basis in Dante, Shakespeare, Plato, and of course, the Bible...
Today happens to be the deadline for the fourth paper i managed to craft during these High Holy days of intellectual skullduggery. Seven pages, 10 pages, 10 pages, 10 pages plus. Nevermind the fait accompli! i've communed with the Great Ones (Plato, Thomas Mann, Nietzsche, etc.) and i (fortunately?) live to tell the tale. Ad nauseum? No, perchance the limits of space conspire with time (consider us both lucky...
...easily imagine what a canon track would look like: a survey of the ancients and medievals including the early Greeks and readings of Plato and Aristotle, followed by a short stay in the Rome of Augustus, moving on to a study of the Hebrew and Christian Bible, and then, a look at the works of Augustine, Aquinas and Maimonides. This would comprise the first two courses in this six-track cassette...