Word: plato
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Plato wrote Socratic dialogues long after the death of Socrates. The Christian Gospels were almost certainly not written by guys named Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. And Moses' death is recorded in the second of the five Books of Moses...
...seek to revive Emerson, Cavell does not apologize for the excesses and eccentricities of Emerson's prose. He cultivates them, demonstrating the sense in which Emerson's writing constitutes a manner of thinking that can be characterized as a kind of "transfiguration"--of the terms and images of Plato, of Kant, of everyday experience...
...folding or unfolding laundry, or maybe they like to wash the same dish 20 or 30 times. Family members tell me it's driving them crazy. My answer is, What are you going to have this person do instead of folding and unfolding laundry? Are they going to read Plato? Are they going to go to a play by Shakespeare? What's the big deal...
Which will triumph? Or is a victory really necessary? Are the two arenas of knowledge irreconcilable? Or are they different entrances to the same estate? Such questions have intrigued scientists ever since Plato first observed that "astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another." Grunwald offers no final answers, but her chart of genius in extremis is witty and sympathetic. In The Theory of Everything, Alexander has come up with an extraordinary insight. His creator has kept pace. She has produced that rarest of all items in the VCR age: an authentic philosophical...
...been denounced in the media recently as the new McCarthyism, the new fundamentalism, even the new totalitarianism -- take your choice. According to its critics, who include a flock of tenured conservative scholars, multiculturalism aims to toss out what it sees as the Eurocentric bias in education and replace Plato with Ntozake Shange and traditional math with the Yoruba number system. And that's just the beginning. The Jacobins of the multiculturalist movement, who are described derisively as P.C., or politically correct, are said to have launched a campus reign of terror against those who slip and innocently say "freshman" instead...