Word: plato
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...speech at Harvard, the University of Chicago's Allan Bloom put his finger on this modern instinct of university students by way of analogy. Today's students, Bloom argued, are akin to the dogs of Plato's Republic, who are warm with friends and fierce toward enemies for no other reason than familiarity with the former and ignorance of the latter...
Every week it's something new but never useful. If the section were about Ancient Greece, he might bring up Gandhi's philosophy of satyagraha, but if it's about modern India, Plato is the man of the hour...
...large photograph; on the other side of the gallery's entrance, grayscale clapboard houses cascade behind the dimpled shadows of a rumpled bed. The result is spellbinding. Forget the brainless integration of disparate images accessible to anyone with Adobe Photoshop; Morell wields a technique known since the time of Plato (think the Cave Allegory): the camera obscura, in which a single aperture allows for the projection of outside images onto the walls of a darkened room. It is comforting to note, as Morell's students reputedly do, "that something this low tech could be so magical...
Harvard students have generally accepted theFaculty's determination that Mill and Plato arecentral to their education--but there's no reasonwhy Gandhi or Malcolm X shouldn't be as well...
...1950s, Singer discovered that there was simply no philosophy concerning the modern conception of love; instead, there was just a span of historical perspectives beginning with the ideas of Plato to the "anti-romantic romantics," Kirekegard and Nietzche...