Word: plato
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...sorted into the same academic groupings, but that's about the extent of the uniformity of academic experience. Does an A received in a VES or computer science course carry the same weight as one in government or economics? And which is more admirable--four years spent engaging Kant, Plato and Nietzsche, or 50 hours a week researching in the biology labs...
...Objectivist Club. Dr. Gary Hull will speak about "Neo-Puritan Assault on Sex and Pleasure"-- offering a wonderfully diametrically alternative to the excessive, hedonistic pleasures of CityStep's Annual Ball. Why would anyone dance the night away in unnecessarily opulent getups when one could consider, instead, "the fusion of Plato, Christianity and Kantian - inspired nihilism"? Gosh...
Another round of elections have passed, both at Harvard and around the country, and in their wake have come the usual attacks on Generation X apathy. Plato warned that "one of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." But before condemning us Generation X slackers, let's make an important distinction: there's good apathy and there's bad apathy...
...elections, Plato was right. The costs of denying yourself a say are just too high. But when it comes to student government, students really shouldn't be faulted for pursuing less than the Platonic ideal of political participation. The challenge, then, is to not confuse the good with the bad. We should care about the big questions and select our apathies wisely for the smaller ones...
...tradition is concerned, homosexuality is ancient and well established. Plato (via Aristophanes) strongly argues for its superiority in the Symposium...