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  • Plato’s Cave Was About Us, Not Others

    Plato’s Cave Was About Us, Not Others0

    Often the analogy of Plato’s Cave is told with the teller standing outside, basking in the sun. Meanwhile, everyone else is left inside, still seeing shadows on the wall. We naturally make a divide: the other country, the other party, the other culture, the other church, the other family – they are always the prisoners.

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  • Plato: Fix Yourself First

    Plato: Fix Yourself First0

    • August 25, 2015

      A passage from The Republic, Book IV, 443d-e, which has been highly influential on the Western tradition. According to Plato, a man first “sets his own house in good order and rules himself” – harmonizing the various parts of his soul – before he can ensure justice in his actions toward others:   Save this

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  • Plato, Descartes and Kant Too White for Univ. Students

    Plato, Descartes and Kant Too White for Univ. Students0

    Via the Telegraph: They are said to be the founding fathers of Western philosophy, whose ideas underpin civilised society. But students at a prestigious London university are demanding that figures such as Plato, Descartes and Immanuel Kant should be largely dropped from the curriculum because they are white. The student union at the School of

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  • Plato Nails Democratic Man

    Plato Nails Democratic Man0

    In Book VIII of The Republic, Plato describes various types of political man, such as oligarchs and aristocrats, through a fictitious conversation between Socrates and Adeimantus. Given the age of democracy we’re in, Plato’s descriptions of democratic man seem especially prescient. From Plato’s perspective, democratic man is dominated by two ideas: freedom and equality. As

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  • Plato Can Help You Find Love

    Plato Can Help You Find Love0

    Not only did early humans have both sets of sexual organs, Aristophanes reports, but they were outfitted with two faces, four hands, and four legs. These monstrosities were very fast—moving by way of cartwheels –– and they were also quite powerful. So powerful, in fact, that the gods were nervous for their dominion. Wanting to

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  • Planned Parenthood Tells Preschoolers: ‘Your genitals don’t make you a boy or a girl’

    Planned Parenthood Tells Preschoolers: ‘Your genitals don’t make you a boy or a girl’0

    If the birds and bees followed Planned Parenthood’s new guidelines concerning them, they would eventually have to be put on the endangered species list. The nation’s largest provider of abortions has new guidelines out on how to talk about sex to preschoolers. Having made it out of the womb (some against Planned Parenthood’s better advice),

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