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...notion of education is precisely that in the U.S. we have this lengthy, old tradition. You read the Federalist papers and you are already with Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke...
...students who know me well have never thought that I have insisted on anything other than that these books must be taken seriously and that there have to be serious interpretations and confrontations with the philosophers. Without that, the discussion cannot proceed. There is no good reason to read Plato if you know beforehand that he is wrong. Very few great thinkers are likely to reflect exactly what modern or contemporary American factions want to think...
...many juniors’ and seniors’ lives, encouraging these students to continue along this path, rather than engaging them academically. One needn’t look hard to find examples of students who totally ignore their classes in order to prepare for their interviews. Instead of studying Plato, or the human genome, or Beethoven, they are practicing cases or manipulating the fonts on their resumes (which, as I understand it, is both an art and a science...
...impossible novelty but as a theme borrowed from the literature of the non-Jewish world. Stephen Patterson of Eden Theological Seminary lists divinely irregular conceptions in stories about not only mythic heroes such as Perseus and Romulus and Remus but also flesh-and-blood figures like Plato, Alexander and Augustus, whose hagiographers reported he was fathered by the god Apollo while his mother slept. "Virgin births were a rather Gentile thing," says the Very Rev. John Drury, chaplain of All Souls' College at Oxford University. "You get it in a lot of the legends in Ovid where the god impregnates...
...year: NOVEMBER American architect turned mythologist Robert Sarmast announced last week that Atlantis lies off the southeast coast of Cyprus. Sarmast says sonar scans taken earlier this month show man-made structures on the seabed, and that the area matches many of the details of the site given by Plato. OCTOBER Maverick Russian astrophysicist Alexander Chechelnitsky asserted that the lost continent was situated in Alaska's Yukon River valley, and that the change in the earth's axis - and the repositioning of the North Pole - brought about its cataclysmic end. Refreshingly undogmatic for an Atlantis hunter, he is quoted...