Word: plato
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...building his printing press, Copernicus beginning to contemplate the solar system and Columbus spreading the culture of Europe to the Americas. And of course there was the 1st century, which if only for the life and death of Jesus may have had the most impact of any. Socrates and Plato made the 5th century B.C. also rather remarkable. But we who live in the 20th can probably get away with the claim that ours has been one of the top four or five of recorded history...
...CENTURY OF FREEDOM If you had to pick a two-word summation, it would be: freedom won. It beat back the two totalitarian alternatives that arose to challenge it, fascism and communism. By the 1990s, the ideals developed by centuries of philosophers from Plato to Locke to Mill to Jefferson--individual rights, civil liberties, personal freedoms and democratic participation in the choice of leaders--finally held sway over more than half the world's population...
There is often an odd split-mind at Harvard, where we can study Plato's Symposium and the fragments of Sappho, Allen Ginsberg and Adrienne Rich '51, yet emerge from the seminar room to find only disgust and fear in expressions of homosexual desire on campus. If Harvard and our larger communities are to accept queers, we must accept them culturally as well as politically. We must accept them as individuals with the capacity for love and lust. The outspoken nature of "Clit Notes" is in part a protest against people such as Oppenheim who consider lesbians de facto excluded...
...once seemed so intractable." Precisely, chimes Giuliani, who takes credit for dramatic reductions in crime and the welfare rolls and resents criticism that his second-term initiatives aren't as grand as those of his first. "The press likes to trivialize what I do," says the mayor, who invokes Plato and the concept of an ideal society. One in which strippers wear bloomers...
Most undergraduates have read her work. In fact, this woman is probably as widely-read here as Darwin, Marx and Plato...