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...Such a view, however, is silly. Harvard is right to uphold pedagogical purity—forcing students to take accounting at MIT, for example. Yet students cannot live on Plato and Proust alone. If the hordes of economics concentrators are any sign, there is no lack of interest in the market. So, just as campus publications hone the skills of budding journalists, similarly should seed grants or non-interest loans from the administration nourish students’ brilliant ideas...
Still, the question is worth consideration, at the very least because our silence concedes the point. Since Plato exiled poets from his mythical Republic, humanists have exerted themselves to defend and expound the merits of poetry. Until the 19th century, the consensus was that literature was proper for its moral utility and its ability to impart ethical lessons through delightful language. This line of thought has gone out of vogue, both for aesthetic reasons and because it has become abundantly clear that there is nothing particularly ennobling about high culture itself. After all, Alex from “A Clockwork...
...curmudgeon, the format of the daily newspaper is certainly not conducive to reflection.Please bear in mind that I am loath to denigrate newspapers in any way. I myself am an avid reader of newspapers, and this piece itself is published in a paper. Then again, Plato decried the pernicious new invention of writing by writing his Phaedrus, so there is at least some precedent for this type of thing. Despite my inclinations there are some ways in which newspapers do bring harm.It is an unfortunate truth that an equitable Middle East settlement or a full portrait of broad trends like...
...aforementioned passage, Plato also cautions would-be course-takers: ¨The worthy disciples of philosophy will be but a small remnant…who in the absence of corrupting influences remains devoted...
Students have poured over Plato for nearly 2500 years—and it takes about that long to resolve the most recondite riddles in the “Republic.” Brace yourself for several hundred pages of reading a week—and breezy prose this...