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...Literature, but he was much more interested in literature than in history, and was particularly passionate about fiction, both as a reader and a writer of it. Every year he took a course in short story writing. He studied under Howard Mumford Jones and Arthur M. Schleshinger, Jr., under Raphael Demos and John L. Finley. His grades were respectable: A's and B's, mostly B's, and just a sprinkling...
Common to all of them is long devotion to the goal set by that gentle needier, Raphael Demos, 70, holder of Harvard's imposing Alford professorship of natural religion, moral philosophy and civil polity (one predecessor: Josiah Royce). The goal: to plumb "who we are, what we know, and how we know it." A Greek immigrant who worked his way through Harvard as janitor of the Lampoon building, Christian Platonist (The Philosophy of Plato) Demos roiled Cambridge with Socratic questioning for 45 years. The aim of education, he argued, after Socrates, is to become more human by learning...
...Raphael Soyer...
...Raphael Demos cast a critical though friendly glance at liberal education Tuesday night and then called for patience and courage to meet the problems of "an age of frustration...
...Raphael Demos discusses the morning Philosophy lecture with one of his section...