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After giving a brief summary of Plato and Aristotle's beliefs about God and a Benevolent Creator, McAffee outlined the debate's format. Both teams were alloted 13 minutes for opening speeches, which were followed by seven-minute rebuttals.Afterwards, there were 15-minute crossexaminations and then four-minute closing statements made by each side. McAffee's kitchen timer buzzed to signal the end of speeches...
...four-day weekend seminars give women--and some men--in leadership positions the chance to discuss texts by authors including Plato, Margaret Mead, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Jill Ker Conway. The seminars, which explore leadership questions, take place in both large sessions and smaller group exercises...
...four-day weekend seminars give women--and some men--in leadership positions the chance to discuss texts by authors including Plato, Margaret Mead, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Jill Ker Conway. The seminars, which explore leadership questions, take place in both large sessions and smaller group exercises...
...oldest expositions of a philosophy akin to our modern glorification of love can be found in Plato's Symposium. We might be surprised to find the ideal associated exclusively with homosexual relationship. Most of the men who participated in these relationships were married and had children (or would later marry and have children), yet they regarded their marital life as completely removed from any romantic ideals and geared exclusively towards reproduction. In the entire Symposium, the only mention of heterosexual intercourse is in the context of adultery. The adulterous man was understood to be acting out of love...
...when I get frustrated with Plato and Professor Mansfield, there's only one thing to do. Get a carton of chocolate milk, slip into my comfy, plaid pajamas with feeties and curl up into the fetal position for a nice, long...