| 单词 | Plato |
| 例句 | Even that thought depresses him because Henry’s the only reason he’s become a person who cites Plato. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z To many traditionalists, Plato included, the age of the written word necessarily meant the end of a craft of oral transmission that had long nourished the Greek mind. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Instead, Plato, who has conveniently turned up to explain what is going on, says, ‘Recognize Experience, for it is she.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The result, a compact treatise titled Generation of Animals, would serve as a foundational text for human genetics just as Plato’s Republic was a founding text for political philosophy. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Plato had a less sarcastic but more forceful opposition. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z In humanities class, Ms. Steck concentrates on our previous discussion about Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Plato, who believed that “all things are full of gods,” actually used the metaphor of slavery to connect his politics with his cosmology. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A century after Pythagoras’s death, Plato, writing in 380 BC, was captivated by this metaphor. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The Ptolemaic system, like those of Plato and Aristotle, claimed that the moon, the sun and all the planets circled around the earth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In his conversations, he appears to be more a philosopher than someone with a medical and psychological background, quoting Hegel as much as Freud, Plato as much as Jung. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Comparing Plato’s Athens to Eratosthenes’ Alexandria is not to compare gold to silver, but apples to oranges. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z If the eugenicist learned these laws and then figured out how to hack them—à la Plato—he would acquire unprecedented power; by manipulating genes, he could manipulate the future. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z My cousins—Aristotle, Socrates, Cleopatra, and Plato—had the thwarted, overbrushed look of ministers’ children. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It’s a part in Plato’s Republic where he wrote a dialogue between his brother Glaucon and his teacher, Socrates. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z In 529, Christians closed the school of Athens— the last link to the academies of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He learned Greek in order to read Plato in the original and later took up Sanskrit to study the Bhagavad Gita. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z How can I make you see it, this strange harsh light which pervades Homer’s landscapes and illumines the dialogues of Plato, an alien light, inarticulable in our common tongue? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z This question, raised by political theorists from Plato to Marx, is raised anew by voters in every modern election. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In this Attic roughneck polity, you can think of Plato—with his radical idealism, intellectual rigidity, and hatred of the mob— as a sort of ancient precursor to Conservative MP Enoch Powell. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z In the recognition by Pythagoras and Plato that the Cosmos is knowable, that there is a mathematical underpinning to nature, they greatly advanced the cause of science. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato were wearing their gangster suits. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In Plato’s allegory of the metals, the philosopher classifies men into groups of gold, silver, and lead. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I read a little bit of Plato’s Republic as well as the chapter in our textbook about the trial of Socrates. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z After a final discussion about Plato’s cave, we are left to our usual ten minutes of free time. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Indeed, they are but distant cousins: logos in rhetoric being another of those bendy shadows cast on the wall of Plato’s well-known cave. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Entry to the inner redoubt requires one to pass through the mathematical sciences, with Tartaglia himself standing among them; within is Philosophy, accompanied by Aristotle and Plato. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Plato had a mathematician’s sensibility—his investigations into reality took place in the mind alone. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Charleton’s example is a figure walking towards us from a distance: at a certain point it becomes obvious that it is Plato. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She rarely spoke, and played cat’s cradle with Plato during the service. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Plato said that Egyptian art had not changed in 10,000 years. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m not a Plato or a Socrates or any of those people. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In a ceremony of great pride, I solemnly crossed Plato off my list. m . Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z That an institution of learning should keep a library was not as obvious then as it is now—Plato, for all the reasons we have already discussed, kept no such collection at his Academy. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z I close my bedroom door and read more Plato. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Geographical knowledge in the classical period of fifth to fourth centuries bce—the times of Socrates, Plato, Pericles, Sophocles, and Aristotle—was not much broader than in Homer’s day, four hundred years earlier. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Raised as an aristocrat, he was dispatched to the academy in Athens at the age of seventeen to study philosophy under Plato and spent two decades there. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “But even Plato knew that class and conditioning and so forth have an inalterable effect on the individual. It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Plato and Aristotle were comfortable in a slave society. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As I’ve said, Plato mistrusted rhetoric— as he mistrusted poetry and drama. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The fact that “sophistry” has a bad name these days is down to Plato. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z I pull out Plato’s Republic, but the minute I do, Jeff Garnet sits down next to me and stares, nervously, until I look up. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z “Of course we’re studying things rather more modern, Plato and the tragedians and so forth.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Plato urged astronomers to think about the heavens, but not to waste their time observing them. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For Plato, the sublunary world was a distorted projection of the world of essences. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “I was telling the boy that according to Plato, man is delined,” he said, smiling affably and gesturing to the cart, “as a featherless biped with broad nails, receptive of political philosophy.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Aesthetics is, strictly speaking, a branch of philosophy which has occupied thinkers from Plato to the present day. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I lie in bed and pick up Plato’s Republic and skim the Allegory of the Cave as I seethe. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z It was a sort of mathematical homunculus—an idea borrowed from Pythagoras and Plato—but dressed up with fractions and denominators into a modern-sounding law. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z —Plato I find, dear reader, that I have grown accustomed to the hectic pace of office life, an adjustment which I doubted I could make. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Aristotle was a disciple of Plato, and to start with, this seems to have been his position too. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z If your philosopher has truly left Plato’s cave, if he has stared into that sun of the blind...” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Plato, Ptolemy and all the Christian astronomers before Kepler had assumed that the planets moved in circular paths. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Plato, who was small like his father, sang out with mock censure, “Shame on you, Callie. What did you do?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Nico had once read a story from Plato, who claimed that in the ancient times all humans had been a combination of male and female. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I’m reading the beginning of Plato’s Republic for humanities class. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z “Take him some flowers and tell him you love Plato and he’ll be eating out of your hand.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Athens in the time of Pericles, Plato and Aristotle had a vast slave population. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The claim went back to Pythagoras and Plato, but Renaissance Platonists had been interested in number mysticism rather than real mathematics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And when they read Plato for the first several times, it will be with awe more than deep comprehension. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z While reading Plato’s Republic, for instance, I needed to keep looking at the book jacket comments to remind myself what the text was about. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know the modern world tends not to agree with me, but after all, Plato had only one teacher, and Alexander.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Driving through Myrtle Beach felt like looking from a three-dimensional universe into Plato’s two-dimensional cave. Fairway to heaven: What happens to an abandoned golf course 2014-03-13T12:45:00Z Ms. Plato died of a drug overdose in 1999 at 34. Conrad Bain, Actor on ‘Diff’rent Strokes,’ Dies at 89 2013-01-17T04:38:00Z If “The End of History” had a beginning, it might be a seminar on Plato’s “Republic” taught by the charismatic political philosopher Allan Bloom, the future author of “The Closing of the American Mind.” Francis Fukuyama Predicted the End of History. It’s Back (Again). 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Landis certainly is clever — the garrulous Matt, who looks and sounds as if he’s in college, name drops Schopenhauer, Jung and Plato — but these citations are largely self-aware icing on a genre cake. Movie Review: Dane DeHaan in ?Chronicle,? Directed by Josh Trank 2012-02-03T00:02:16Z The toasts, issued from the upstairs foyer, were short and very sweet, with references to love, goodness, truth and Plato. At 81, Diane Rehm is once again a blushing bride 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z Everything Plato wrote — including the story of Atlantis — underscored his conviction that the purpose of life was to search for truth. My Quest for Atlantis 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z His films only masquerade as realistic, in the same way that, according to Plato’s system, the visible world only masquerades as reality. The Film Where Eric Rohmer Let Desire Win 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z It depicts the seven men who converse in Plato’s “Symposium.” Dance This Fall: Indian Mythology and Ballets by Women 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z First there was Plato and at the very end was Nietzsche, and Nietzsche’s metaphysical doctrine is that everything is will to power. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z I wonder if George R. R. Martin holds his family reunions at Plato’s Retreat. Lame of Thrones 2012-07-24T17:05:00Z Let me quickly stress, though, that Mustich doesn’t neglect the usual golden oldies, such as Plato’s dialogues, Shakespeare’s plays and Jane Austen’s novels. Review | The ultimate literary bucket list: ‘1,000 Books to Read Before You Die’ 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z Plato, while certainly disagreeing with him about certain matters, admired him enormously. Socrates Questions, a Contemporary Philosopher Answers 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Plato asks us to imagine a cave, in which people are chained in darkness, watching a play of shadows on a wall. ‘Days of Endless Time’ at the Hirshhorn examines our need for nature to soothe us But when they got it right … Education and Culture Older generations have decried the ignorance of the youth going back to the days of Plato. Science fiction’s 2012 2012-08-05T16:00:00Z “Consider hosting a virtual toy or food drive and have your neighbors be a part of it,” Plato suggests. Volunteering can give kids purpose in uncertain times — and there are still ways to do it 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z An audio segment called “Death of a Cave Allegory,” a modern retelling of Plato’s famous parable, felt like an unremarkable excerpt from an undergraduate philosophy class. ‘Liminality’ Is Theater of the Mind That Explores the In-Between 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z She began researching the tragic circumstances surrounding the deaths of other actresses — Sharon Tate, Marilyn Monroe, Dana Plato — and writing about each one. Amber Tamblyn faces her own demons writing poetry in 'Dark Sparkler' 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z In this poem Plato encouraged girls to “try and get your learning young/And write it back to me.” ‘Give the Children the Poems and Stories of Their Own People’ 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z Exhibit A would be Plato’s Stepchildren, the famous 1968 Star Trek episode credited with broadcasting the first interracial kiss in US television history. When it comes to interracial romances, the movies need to catch up 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The Rock of Gibraltar is part of Plato’s most tantalizing clue: that Atlantis was an island that once sat “in front of the mouth” of the Pillars of Hercules. My Quest for Atlantis 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Plato believed democracy to be so unworkable an institution that he banned it from his ideal Republic. Is Donald Trump "crazy?" Wrong question 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z The immutable truths of Plato and Aristotle needed to be appreciated again. 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z This goes all the way back to Plato, who suggested in “The Republic” that it was just fine to trick a patient if it helped to improve his or her health. “The Killing”: Who killed Rosie Larsen? We’ll finally learn 2012-06-14T15:25:00Z The answer is necessarily both, and balancing the two is not much easier in our time than it was in Plato’s. Can the Benjamin Rush Society Bring Free-Market Ideas to Medical Schools? 2011-11-03T17:04:58Z It goes back to Plato’s cave, which reminds us that things are always different than they seem. Now You See It: A Magician’s Memoir Promises Truth and Other Lies 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Among other details, the heroine in the proof is referred to as Miss Lucas in places, rather than Esther Greenwood, and a character named Plato in the proof becomes Socrates in the book. Rare Early Proof of 'The Bell Jar' to Be Auctioned 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z He was referring especially to Plato’s “Symposium,” a text regularly discussed at Antioch, for its depiction of love. The Couch in Rainbow Colors: ‘L.G.B.T.-Affirming’ Therapy 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z “It reminded me of Plato, the idea that everything is a reflection.” How the Berkshires Became an Epicenter of Great Food 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z At the end of the book, the characters congregate in Lahore for a viewing of Plato's last great painting. A life in writing: Tariq Ali 2010-05-07T23:18:00Z The episode's plot is bizarre: Aliens who worship the Greek philosopher Plato use telekinetic powers to force the Enterprise crew to sing, dance and kiss. The story behind "Star Trek" actress Nichelle Nichols’ iconic interracial kiss 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z Plato’s city, before its catastrophic end, had been built atop concentric rings of land and water. My Quest for Atlantis 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z “De Staat” is also an unabashed attempt to do what Plato deems dangerous: use music to alter the state, in a sense, by shaking up the emotions of listeners. Music Review: Ensemble ACJW Performs ?De Staat? at Zankel Hall 2010-05-11T22:20:00Z Strauss’s intensely close readings of Plato, Maimonides and Machiavelli can seem remote from contemporary politics. ‘Charge the Cockpit or You Die’: Behind an Incendiary Case for Trump 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z Plato’s Cave helps us to understand human ignorance. How “The Memory Police” Makes You See 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Plato piles on so much detail, in fact, that people have been arguing ever since his death whether he intended the story to be taken as truth or fiction. My Quest for Atlantis 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z The “theory” Sontag is referring to—how Aristotle countered Plato’s idea that art was useless by suggesting that its true utility might be in inciting and placating our emotions—is, of course, limiting. Music to Forget Yourself With 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z One study of the most frequently cited academic sources of all time found that he ranked eighth, just below Plato and Freud. Noam Chomsky: 'No individual changes anything alone' 2013-03-22T19:08:27Z "And you're like, 'What is this? Plato's Cave?' Those little things are poetry." Moment of Friday: Gronk's 'Citizen Kane' is 1957's 'The Giant Claw' 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z The emphasis on the group serves to abstract but also expand aspects of the narrative and speech in Plato’s words, and the contrasts of patterns and styles keep developing an extraordinarily rich tension. Dance Review: A Romp Through the Barn 2011-08-20T00:23:30Z His questions instead prompt suggestive insights on the relevant theme from the great books of the world: Homer, Plato, the Sanskrit Vedas, the Hebrew Talmud, the Christian Gospels, the Persian and Arabic classics. Cabinet of curiosity 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z In person, Ms. Dugan, a longtime New Yorker, speaks with a mixture of brassy familiarity and lofty mission-statement-ese, and is fond of dropping quotes from Plato and Nietzsche. How the Grammys and Deborah Dugan Went From Hello to War in 5 Months 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z I knew that a young Plato had competed as a wrestler at the Isthmian Games in the early fifth century B.C. An Olympic Odyssey: Where the Games Began 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Not surprisingly, his body of work references Plato, Sartre, and some very weighty matters: terrorism, death, ecological disaster - all with a "celebrate life" underpinning. Rock solid: Nile's 'Innocent Ones' strikes a chord 2011-12-16T11:01:04Z That’s just what Plato theorized in his famous explanation for the discredited, fantasy diagnosis of “hysteria” that was widely believed to plague women well into the 20th century. Seven crazy myths about the female anatomy 2012-08-24T13:37:00Z Will Ballet Theater revive the Plato “Serenade” this fall at the David H. Koch? Alexei Ratmansky: A Choreographer Who Leaps Ever Higher 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z But its equally enduring legacy became the former child stars' troubles in adulthood, including the 1999 suicide of Dana Plato, who played the boys' white, teenage sister. `Diff'rent Strokes' star Gary Coleman dies 2010-05-28T19:05:00Z Plato's allegory of the cave has spawned many creative explorations, right up to Neo and his excellent adventures in "The Matrix." Vitalist manages to shed light on a heavy European drama 2011-05-18T21:56:00Z He lays bare the thinking of everyone from Socrates and Plato and Heidegger and Leibniz through Stephen Hawking and Richard Dawkins. Books of The Times: ‘Why Does the World Exist?’ by Jim Holt 2012-08-02T18:37:46Z Its central thesis is that the Biblical authors, no less than Parmenides or Plato, pursued and cultivated a philosophical worldview embracing everything from metaphysics to politics. The Bible goes Greek 2012-09-30T12:00:00Z One extraordinary fresco, in which a fleet of ships voyage between two prosperous maritime cities, has been interpreted by some as a snapshot of Plato’s Atlantis. My Quest for Atlantis 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z I quoted Cioran to him and he quoted Plato back on the same subject. ‘The Passenger’ 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Several great theorists also write beautifully, notably Plato, Rousseau, Hume and Schopenhauer; their books are literature. Review | A new book for ‘those who don’t want millions, but an answer to their questions’ 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Here’s how Plato puts it: “The pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and would not be out of the other’s sight.” True Love? On TV, There’s an App for That. 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z To apply, I had to write an essay on Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. Our school shooting 2012-08-20T01:00:00Z Why did Plato go to these lengths to base his writings on hidden Pythagorean foundations? Magic numbers 2010-07-01T15:09:00Z The metaphor finds its echo in Plato’s “Republic,” in which Socrates explicitly likens society’s “guardians,” with their penchant both for ferocity and for patriotism, to dogs. “American Sniper” Takes Apart the Myth of the American Warrior 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z It’s like Plato says: Beauty is the splendor of truth. A Look Inside the Films of Michael Glawogger 2012-04-13T17:45:00Z In Plato’s dialogue, Socrates begins by debating the nature of justice. Francis Fukuyama Predicted the End of History. It’s Back (Again). 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z But it helps that the exploration of his teleological musings are peppered with jokes like Eleanor’s dismissive, “Who died and left Aristotle in charge of ethics?” to which the exasperated Chidi replies, “Plato!” The Good Place: how a sitcom made philosophy seem cool 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z He depicts a dark cave decorated for tourists with projected patches of colored lights — a stand-in for the cave in Plato’s allegory, where only the shadows of outside life are visible to those chained within. What’s New in Photography? Humanism, MoMA Says 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Even with that, he fared better than Plato, who died of a drug overdose in 1999. Troubled lives for child stars of Coleman's sitcom 2010-05-28T23:09:00Z I learn that Plato, Voltaire, Hegel and Sherlock Holmes didn't write or say the lines for which they were most famous. Children of the Days by Eduardo Galeano – review 2013-05-12T08:00:06Z It’s in keeping with the Berkshires, a place where farmers quote Plato, where art historians grow micro-greens, where days-old goats wobble gently on new legs, where the woods are lovely, dark and deep. How the Berkshires Became an Epicenter of Great Food 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z From Plato's allegory of the cave onward, the point of allegory has been to press-gang narrative into the service of exposition. A Serbian Film: when allegory gets nasty 2010-12-13T12:36:00Z I had only one interesting course at Exeter, on Plato and Milton, otherwise the boredom was complete. Interview: Gore Vidal 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z So here’s some rare advice for a weekend in Greece: Forget your swimsuit and leave your copies of Plato and Socrates at home. 36 Hours in Thessaloniki 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Plato isn't exactly writing about rap battles, but there are similarities. Kanye may not like books, but hip-hop fosters a love of literature 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z People claim that Plato and Aristotle and Socrates were all members of this mystery cult, a secret order that wanted to preserve and disseminate knowledge. ArtsBeat: Renaissance Men: David S. Goyer Introduces 'Da Vinci's Demons' for Starz 2012-10-12T12:00:54Z “But he is such a loving person and an expert on Plato, that I do believe it is all platonic.” Cultural Studies: Social Kissing, Welcome or Not 2012-07-20T20:12:21Z And Mr. Fowler returns in “Socrates” to play Satie’s cantata “Socrate,” which sets three passages from Plato, climaxing in the death of Socrates. Dance Review: A Romp Through the Barn 2011-08-20T00:23:30Z One of his fellow child stars on "Diff'rent Strokes," Dana Plato, died of a drug overdose. Obituary: Gary Coleman, 42, star of '70s sitcom 'Diff'rent Strokes' 2010-05-29T04:31:00Z Representation became their total reality: Plato’s cave, down on Delancey Street. Escape from Childhood 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z "The great philosophical writers of the past wrote for humanity," Blackburn begins, enumerating Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Mill and even Wittgenstein. Philosophy is supposed to be difficult 2011-02-25T12:01:28Z For Plato, the soul's connection with the body was only accidental. Disney Pixar’s Soul: how the moviemakers took Plato’s view of existence and added a modern twist 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z In his own writings, Plato’s prize pupil Aristotle seems to confirm some elements of his master’s story while casting doubt on others. My Quest for Atlantis 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Dr. Mifsud believed that accounts of this collapse, probably the result of a natural disaster, had been passed down through the generations until Plato recorded them in the story of Atlantis. My Quest for Atlantis 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z This poem was included in one of the first known books of essays published by an African American woman, Plato’s “Essays: Including Biographies and Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Poetry.” ‘Give the Children the Poems and Stories of Their Own People’ 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z “Romantic love is an urge, a craving, a homeostatic imbalance that drives you to pursue a particular partner and experience emotions like elation and hope, or despair and rage,” says Fisher, paraphrasing Plato. Swipe right, it’s actually Leo!: Tinder’s new verified accounts might be the death of romantic serendipity 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z That episode ends with a particularly beautiful moment, one reminiscent of Plato's cave allegory and which powerfully illustrates how science can dispel fanaticism. Seth MacFarlane: Progressive hero 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z The real importance of this discovery, as Kennedy says, is that it allies Plato with the heretical, Pythagorean idea that "mathematical law governed the universe and not Zeus". Magic numbers 2010-07-01T15:09:00Z Scolds, grouches and moralizers have been trying to censor it since Plato, but media violence satisfies a universal appetite, is probably therapeutic and is absolutely awesome. Weinstein, Tarantino and the standoff over movie violence 2014-02-01T19:30:00Z Or possibly myth; Plato argued the perfect circle only existed as a Form, something that we understand but never see; a circle in the real world is always merely an imperfect interconnection of adjoining dots. The story of O in design 2010-03-16T22:00:00Z The Romans copied the Greeks, and thank goodness they did; much of what happened in the age of Socrates, Plato and Menander is known to us only through Roman facsimiles. Borrowing, appropriating and stealing as old as art itself 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Trampling through moorland, fens and heaths, Hayden reflects on the meaning of life and the excesses of materialism and muses extensively on music, consulting Plato, Epicurus, Hegel and Kierkegaard along the way. Into the Wild: Three books celebrate the joys of life in nature 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Inside are quotes from Plato, Plutarch and Nietzsche, along with more prosaic prompts: “Can it be useful to be pessimistic?” or “Airbrushing models makes the world more fabulous.” In Transit: Morgans Hotels to Offer a Minibar Stocked With Conversation Starters 2011-02-11T16:16:39Z Plato’s stance was that it was enough to think about the universe. Has Physics Lost Its Way? 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Was it Plato or Aristotle who said something about all life being change? Theater Review: ‘Somewhere Fun,’ by Jenny Schwartz, at Vineyard Theater 2013-06-05T02:00:01Z Is it possible to do people good by doing them harm? Plato didn’t think so; the director David Frankel and the screenwriter Allan Loeb do. In “Collateral Beauty” and “Passengers,” Two Tales of Gaslighting 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z This goes all the way back to Plato, who suggested in “The Republic” that it was just fine to trick a patient if it helped to improve their health. Should doctors withhold bad news? 2012-06-07T15:20:00Z Now my novels are translated into other languages, they go out into the wider linguistic universe, but I’m back in Plato’s Cave for good now, watching shadows on the wall. Shakespeare in Klingon: Literature in the Original and My Total Failure to Read It That Way 2012-11-28T16:30:53Z When the underwater volcano Thera erupted, its tsunami flooded much of Crete, wiping out the Minoan civilisation, and providing Plato with the material for his account of Atlantis. Atlantis: The Evidence 2010-06-02T07:00:00Z He mentions Plato in his book, only to identify his career achievements as "thinking and chatting". Brand designs 2010-04-06T07:00:00Z This is one reason Plato was so suspicious of them, that they became substitutes or crutches to a diminished faculty of recollection. A Microsoft billionaire gives the public a rare view of his art 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z The notion of an underwater city named Atlantis may have started with Plato, but here the myth is mined more in the theme park and Jacques Cousteau vein. Following an 8-Year-Old to Atlantis 2014-03-07T16:28:34Z Like a demon to be exorcised, it seems to appear in every artist’s output, from Plato to the novels of Ben Lerner — often autobiographical, and almost always philosophical. Review: A New Opera Pays Poetic Tribute to the Creative Process 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Plato's student Aristotle, by contrast, denied that there even was a proper afterlife for the soul. Disney Pixar’s Soul: how the moviemakers took Plato’s view of existence and added a modern twist 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z We have failed collectively since Plato first choked on an olive. A Wildly Inventive Fantasy Series That Began on the Web and Became a Best-Seller 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Every imagined Utopia, from Plato to the present day, helplessly becomes a Dystopia, almost certainly because the writers just couldn’t resist the urge to make the “place” sound halfway interesting. Martin Amis on Lenin’s Deadly Revolution 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z So here's a handful of musical code-makers and breakers, some of Plato's and Pythagoras's heirs. Magic numbers 2010-07-01T15:09:00Z A Composer Arguing With Plato The composer Louis Andriessen’s pugnacious and exhilarating piece “De Staat” has a reputation as a milestone of avant-garde music in the later decades of the 20th century. Music Review: Ensemble ACJW Performs ?De Staat? at Zankel Hall 2010-05-11T22:20:00Z In the ancient world Plato banned poets from his ideal republic; today they have to navigate the “embarrassment or suspicion or anger” that follows when they admit to their profession in public. War of words 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Was Plato right to say the poet belongs outside, not inside, any ideal society? John Sutherland's top 10 books about books 2010-12-30T10:36:30Z Four hours later, from my table at Plato’s, I saw Jack and Mary bouncing down the marble amid the scrum of wet teenagers and barefoot toddlers and their totally relaxed parents. Following an 8-Year-Old to Atlantis 2014-03-07T16:28:34Z These are the poems of a man like Plato, she said, meaning something I did not comprehend but which nevertheless offended me. Selected Poems by Robert Bringhurst 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z It's a clandestine code that ties Plato's work to the scientific arcana of music as it was understood by the ancient Greeks. Magic numbers 2010-07-01T15:09:00Z And you know what Plato said about circles. ‘There Is Simply Too Much to Think About,’ Saul Bellow’s Nonfiction 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z He was on a mystical, otherworldly ascent, very typical of both the Kabbalah and Plato, his two intellectual passions. A Renaissance Murder Mystery 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Some facts we learn about Misty: The three famous people she would invite to a slumber party are Plato, the “Grind” host Eric Nies and Jack Kevorkian because what he does is “so brave.” ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2, Episode 5 Recap: Destructive Secrets 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z In Book I of Plato’s Republic, Socrates poses the difficult question: “Is the physician a healer of the sick or a maker of money?” Can the Benjamin Rush Society Bring Free-Market Ideas to Medical Schools? 2011-11-03T17:04:58Z Plato may have railed against allowing musical harmony to be the vehicle for excitable emotions, but music down the centuries seems to offer only repeated snubs to his warnings. Indecent exposure 2011-04-07T21:00:03Z Elsewhere in Plato's painting, tumours sprout and bearded jihadis are shown "developing a life of their own". A life in writing: Tariq Ali 2010-05-07T23:18:00Z Plato went so far as to maintain that unless we assume we possess a coherent, enduring and objective self, we can't really consider anything else. Total Recall fuels delusion about who we are 2012-08-28T09:39:32Z Plato and Aristotle parted ways over these questions. Disney Pixar’s Soul: how the moviemakers took Plato’s view of existence and added a modern twist 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z The initial impulse was to make a solo theater piece based on Plato’s “Apology,” an account of the trial of Socrates, which Mac had recently read for the first time. Taylor Mac’s ‘Fever Dream’: Exploring the Philosophy of the Hang 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Andriessen, the Netherlands' greatest living composer, has been an astute chronicler of society since he burst onto the scene in the 1970s with his spectacular tour de force about Plato's Republic, De Staat. Indecent exposure 2011-04-07T21:00:03Z While I’d want copies of the Bible, Plato, Dante, Shakespeare and Proust — the biggies of western literature — I’m too much of a sybarite to restrict myself to classics. Review | You’re done with it all. You head for the hills. What books do you bring? 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Driving through Myrtle Beach felt like looking from a three-dimensional universe into Plato’s two-dimensional cave. Fairway to heaven: What happens to an abandoned golf course 2014-03-13T12:45:00Z Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian As Plato once said: "He was a wise man who invented beer." Readers recommend: songs about beer 2012-07-05T21:00:00Z Indeed, the ancient ethic of the medical profession — set forth by Plato’s contemporary, the physician Hippocrates of Cos — gives doctors a moral as well as a medical role in their societies. Can the Benjamin Rush Society Bring Free-Market Ideas to Medical Schools? 2011-11-03T17:04:58Z Some bemoan the fact that once-revered philosophers like Plato, Aeschylus, Homer and St. Augustine are being tossed aside because their complex, dated ideas just don't resonate with this empowered new generation of kids. Students kickin' the old school in 'Office Hours' 2010-10-01T18:32:00Z For Plato, this would indicate that Joe was a bad person unable to detach himself from material pleasures. Disney Pixar’s Soul: how the moviemakers took Plato’s view of existence and added a modern twist 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z Plato held that they coincided; but what if they actually, in some cases, conflict? Movie of the Week: “Tabu” 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z There is a quote attributed to Plato and/or Philo of Alexandria — “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle” — that is probably anachronistic to both, but still useful. Interview With My Bully: The bully who asked me out 2012-05-22T00:00:00Z Socrates sounds something like a CrossFitter in Plato’s Republic when he discusses the needs of soldiers, making a distinction between “warrior athletes” and “ordinary athletes.” CrossFit mirrors American militarism 2013-09-08T00:00:00Z But he also followed Plato’s insistence that reason could still rule supreme. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Seated at library desks with the lamps on, the honorees were feted under the gaze of statues of Shakespeare and Plato, after guests perused exhibits dedicated to their work. A Kennedy Center Honors With the Presidential Box Used as Intended 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Carr, then, is a descendent of Plato, who mistrusted writing because he thought people would stop bothering to know anything if it was all there in books. Is this the end for books? 2011-08-14T20:30:01Z If historian Jay Kennedy is right, Plato structured his writings according to a Pythagorean division of the octave into 12 tones. Magic numbers 2010-07-01T15:09:00Z A more this-worldly religion such as Judaism is perfectly suited to a philosopher who made her name in The Fragility of Goodness by defending the practical ethics of Aristotle over the metaphysical supernaturalism of Plato. Martha Nussbaum and the new religious intolerance 2012-06-29T21:55:17Z In Plato’s “Republic,” Socrates banishes poets, including dramatists, from the perfectly just city. Socrates Questions, a Contemporary Philosopher Answers 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z It even bothered Plato, who argued that the technology of writing would destroy the art of remembering. The internet: is it changing the way we think? 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z The visible world, as Plato pointed out, is a veil concealing truth. Invisible: Art about the Unseen 1957 – 2012 – review 2012-06-10T20:31:00Z But first comes a new ballet to be unveiled at Ballet Theater’s gala on Monday, May 16: an exploration of love set to and named after Leonard Bernstein’s “Serenade After Plato’s Symposium.” Alexei Ratmansky Has Russian Poetry and an American Pulse 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z The problem starts, he argues, with Plato's description of Socrates' death as the logical culmination of his philosophical practice. Non-fiction roundup - reviews 2012-10-05T21:55:05Z The God of Love, Plato wrote in “The Symposium,” “lives in a state of need.” How to Get Over That Ex 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z He learned Italian well enough to give lessons, taught himself modern and ancient Greek — he read the New Testament and Plato in the original — and made a stab at basic Arabic. Review | A plump, Victorian gentleman who was so very pleasant to know 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z The first was the remarkable explosion of thought in early Athens, sparked by Socrates and continued by Plato, Aristotle and their followers. Seeing the light 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Plato wrote that Atlantis was located near Gades, the ancient name for the city of Cádiz, about 60 miles northwest of Gibraltar. My Quest for Atlantis 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z We might also remember that his last words, according to Plato, were advice to his friends to sacrifice a cockerel to the god Asclepius. Clash of the Titans and the classics 2010-04-13T10:52:00Z For them it was "the essence of civilisation – of benefit to humanity, according to Plato". 'Compulsive' art collector builds French museum to display ancient treasures 2011-03-27T00:06:09Z Plato’s cave, which involves illusion and manipulation, is a driving allegory in the book, which is also undergirded by the cultural thinker Jean Baudrillard’s theories of the relationship between reality and simulation. Derek DelGaudio and the Great Unburdening of Secrets 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z According to Laura Plato, chief solutions officer at VolunteerMatch, a platform that connects volunteers with nonprofit organizations, traditional in-person volunteering has dropped off precipitously since the pandemic began, while need has only grown. Volunteering can give kids purpose in uncertain times — and there are still ways to do it 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z “Pasolini is like Plato, what he said was powerful right then, what he was saying is powerful a thousand years from now,” said Ferrara. TIFF 2014: Abel Ferrara and Willem Dafoe revive 'Pasolini' 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z In Plato’s dialogue, the “guardians” are put through a rigorous philosophical training, not least on the assumption that they will also be the rulers of an ideally just society. “American Sniper” Takes Apart the Myth of the American Warrior 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar ... Local best-sellers: Larsson at top of Eagle Harbor's list 2010-08-18T20:15:00Z The 1954 score, according to Bernstein’s notes, is not a literal rendering of Plato’s text but rather “a series of related statements in praise of love.” Alexei Ratmansky Has Russian Poetry and an American Pulse 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z The challenge in writing a play about Socrates is that Plato already wrote more than a dozen episodes of Socrates talking to people. Socrates Questions, a Contemporary Philosopher Answers 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z But then Plato wanted no place in his republic for artists – and that probably included satirists too. Heard the one about the corrupt, lying politician? 2011-08-25T21:30:03Z Plato depicted Atlantis as a well-guarded island city, rich in temples. My Quest for Atlantis 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Naturally he finds many of Plato’s dictums about music absurd, for example, his call for the banning of the mixolydian mode due to its potentially damaging influence on human nature. The Week Ahead: May 9 ? 15 2010-05-06T18:46:00Z Ray planned to have Plato shot by a sharpshooter from the roof of the planetarium. Reclaiming Causes of Nicholas Ray, Film Rebel 2010-06-16T22:54:00Z We’re shown Philosophy 101 stalwarts Plato and Descartes as its pioneers. ‘A Glitch in the Matrix’ Review: Is This All Just a Simulation? 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Michelangelo — or at least his reincarnated form — is a frustrated factory worker; Plato spends his time herding oxen. ‘The Tragedy of Man’ by Marcell Jankovics, Animator 2012-11-10T01:04:20Z These concepts are illustrated with texts drawn from an impressive range of sources, including Plato, Virgil and Ovid as well as names you’d expect, like Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Review: A Musical Homage to Aviation, From Plato to Earhart 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Plato was famously critical of theatricality, condemning drama as a form of lying that manipulates the public, with sometimes dangerous consequences. Taylor Mac’s ‘Fever Dream’: Exploring the Philosophy of the Hang 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Not just any books, mind you, but the works of Plato, Descartes and Kant, Shakespeare, Marx and Freud. Vashon Great Books club one of oldest in U.S. 2011-10-10T15:48:57Z As Plato theorized, this education was a kind of remembering. Alvin Ailey Partners With Maker of Reyataz for a Dance 2011-11-29T23:13:04Z Hegel, Plato and Grace Lee Boggs’s philosophy were set on fire. Why ‘Fahrenheit 451’ Is the Book for Our Social Media Age 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Plato has Glaucon speculate that a person endowed with this ring—which would render its wearer invisible—would fulfill his wildest and basest desires without regard to morality because he’d fear no punishment. The Film Where Eric Rohmer Let Desire Win 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z We meet with the usual suspects — like Nietzsche and Dawkins — but also romp around with Plato, Wittgenstein, Yeats, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf. The age of atheism: “If God exists, why is anybody unhappy?” 2014-02-15T15:45:00Z Plato had his olive grove of Akademia, Christian monks turned inward to the verdant cloister, and Thomas Jefferson built his academy around the Lawn at the University of Virginia. If any place can get young minds to unplug, it’s a college sitting on an arboretum 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z A small side table holds busts of Aristotle, Socrates, Plato, Freud, and the eleventh-century Persian philosopher Avicenna. The Sage of Yale Law 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Brewed at just 10 degrees on the Plato scale, it had a crisp finish with a nice note of Saaz noble hops, despite having less than 4 percent alcohol. In Brno, Drinks for Morning, Noon and Night 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Once upon a time in the West, way before Socrates and Plato kicked off what we now think of as philosophy, people were open to the wonderful variety of things. Books of The Times: The Classics as the Antidote to Modern Malaise 2011-01-04T01:18:40Z Bernstein may have devised an elaborate program for the Serenade as a depiction of Plato’s Symposium on love, but it is really another example of how resourceful a recycler he was. L.A. Chamber Orchestra gets a hand from Joshua Bell and guest conductor Jaime Martín 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z And Mr. Wheeldon is similarly resourceful in his responses to Bernstein’s “Serenade after Plato: Symposium,” a violin concerto in five movements that slips between poetic lyricism and driving dynamic rhythm. Review: An American in London (Bernstein, That Is) 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z “Plato, his teacher, said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. Aristotle would say the unplanned life is slightly less likely to be happy. It’s planning. Just planning.” How Aristotle is the perfect happiness guru 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z For thinkers from Plato to Keats, the beautiful was a universally supreme notion on par with Truth and Goodness. Cooper Hewitt Triennial Offers a Bold Look at ‘Beauty’ 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Ready to spar, the man asks, "Have you read Plato?" "Succession" returns after two years, and the Roy family hasn't changed a bit 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z According to Plato, “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” Family food resolutions for the new year 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Plato posited two forms: common love and heavenly love. The Couch in Rainbow Colors: ‘L.G.B.T.-Affirming’ Therapy 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z But there's an even more obvious musical connection with Plato's Pythagorean secret. Magic numbers 2010-07-01T15:09:00Z The same is true for genius like William Shakespeare or Plato. How We All Can Be ?Creative Types? 2012-04-05T15:13:09Z But in Mac’s retelling, if Socrates has a foil, it’s Plato himself, who lurks around the action, taking it all down on an ancient Greek stenograph. Taylor Mac’s ‘Fever Dream’: Exploring the Philosophy of the Hang 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Under his yearbook photograph appeared the motto: “Plato or comic books, I’m versatile.” Bill Berkson, Poet and Art Critic of ’60s Manhattan In-Crowd, Dies at 76 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z “I was very depressed. I was just clicking through when I saw something on the McQueen show ‘Plato’s Atlantis,’ and I just thought, ‘This is a whole new world.’ Their Met Gala, Their Way. You’re Invited. 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z In the summer of 2021, when I joined the Sea Clowns again for a month, they were producing a new show based on Plato’s allegory of the cave. Fragile, Delicate, Free: Glimpses of Circus Life, at Sea 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Alexei Ratmansky’s latest ballet, “Serenade After Plato’s Symposium,” is the most authoritatively original creation this bewilderingly versatile choreographer has given us. Review: In Gala, American Ballet Theater Is Open to Debate 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z There is a great quote that I believe is Plato, who said, “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.” A Word With: The Civil Wars: Talking to Joy Williams and John Paul White of the Civil Wars 2011-10-25T21:54:53Z Plato would smile benignantly on your progress, from the particulars of something sketched in the real world to the transcendence of pure form. Fred Sandback, creating lines and defying boundaries at the Glenstone 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z As he puts it, “The spirit of Plato is abroad in the world again.” Has Physics Lost Its Way? 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z One of Smith's brief and illuminating chapters looks at the idea of the "Ideal City", spinning through notions conjured by Plato, Vitruvius, Leonardo, Thomas More, Campanella, Ebenezer Howard and Le Corbusier. City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age by PD Smith – review 2012-06-08T21:55:08Z “Next time maybe we’ll actually talk about Plato, though, O.K.? Ha.” Review: ‘Five Times in One Night,’ at Ensemble Studio Theater 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Are we like the prisoners in Plato’s cave, only able to see the shadows cast by people and things in the real world, but unable to see it directly? Which is stupider: “The Purge: Election Year” or the total insanity of the real world? 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z The hero of Plato's dialogues, Socrates, explained to his friends, hours before his execution, that the philosopher yearns for his death because it marks the liberation of the soul into its true existence. Disney Pixar’s Soul: how the moviemakers took Plato’s view of existence and added a modern twist 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z Think about that, I told myself: Plato’s sweat had mixed with this dirt, here on these very grounds. An Olympic Odyssey: Where the Games Began 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z With about 80 percent of the approximately 1.5 million nonprofits in the country using volunteers, according to Plato, “the help is needed and wanted,” she says. Volunteering can give kids purpose in uncertain times — and there are still ways to do it 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Blake and the Japanese haiku master Issa speak for the 18th century, and Homer, Plato and the Bible represent the classical and pre-modern eras. What book changed your life? 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z In Plato’s Republic, Leontius, the soldier, forced to confront a glut of decaying human corpses, turns his eyes away in horror and shame. Love in the Time of Numbness; or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Plato attempted to answer that question and people are still struggling for the proper answer. Anne Hathaway talks of "Love and Other Drugs" 2010-11-19T15:41:00Z In his dialogue Timaeus, Plato, following other Greek writers, describes the uterus as a little animal with a mind of its own that wanders throughout a woman’s body, “blocking passages, obstructing breathing, and causing disease.” Seven crazy myths about the female anatomy 2012-08-24T13:37:00Z Suite 10 had been transformed into a magical version of Plato’s Cave, glowing with golden artificial light that filtered in through small windows, and from recessed lighting in the walls. Next Stop: In Italy, Luxury Transforms Caves Into Hotels 2010-11-20T06:29:00Z Two of the young stars, Coleman and Dana Plato, are dead. Troubled lives for child stars of Coleman's sitcom 2010-05-28T23:09:00Z Like Plato’s cave, nothing is as it seems. Now You See It: A Magician’s Memoir Promises Truth and Other Lies 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Could it indeed be one of those works whose greatness can be glimpsed only through private meditation, like an ideal form in Plato's philosophy? With age, the wisdom of staging 'Lear' becomes less clear 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z Plato wrote of the ring of Gyges, which bestowed the gift/curse of invisibility, leading men to thieve. Internet trolls can’t help themselves 2012-08-01T21:00:00Z In Plato’s “Phaedrus,” Socrates extols divinely inspired madness in mystics, lovers, poets and prophets; he describes these disturbances as gifts of the gods, rather than maladies. A Nobel Laureate Asks What Makes a ‘Disordered Mind’ 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Sixteen others on the Spectator’s list included philosophers Confucius, Socrates, Plato, Kant and Aristotle. ISU project to restore dome last seen in 1973 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z Anti-theatrical prejudice isn’t news; Plato banished theater from his republic because he felt it encouraged unreality. Is Theater Ridiculous? Movies, TV and Books Seem to Think So 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z The episode’s plot is bizarre: Aliens who worship the Greek philosopher Plato use telekinetic powers to force the Enterprise crew to sing, dance and kiss. TV’s first interracial kiss launched a lifelong career in activism 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z Adopted as a baby, Plato had overdosed on Valium by age 14. Gary Coleman's troubled co-stars 2010-05-29T00:27:00Z Mr. Landsman said they were also inspired by Plato’s idea that democracies lack requirements for public office, meaning that anyone — no matter how smart or dumb, sane or insane — can govern. ‘City Council Meeting,’ Locally Tailored, From Here 2013-05-08T21:40:41Z And along with Plato’s “Symposium,” it inspired “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.” John Cameron Mitchell Finds Joy in Mavis Staples and ‘Veneno’ 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Whereas Plato’s cave is an ideal of a cave. He leaves the cave indistinct enough so that it can be any cave you’ve been in, or any cave you can think of. Designing a Book Cover for Italo Calvino 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Plato’s later writings actually challenged some of his own ideas in “The Republic”; Wittgenstein eventually rejected much of his “Tractatus.” Review | A new book for ‘those who don’t want millions, but an answer to their questions’ 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Thinkers have toyed with theories of error since Plato’s time, many of them generally agreeing with Albert Einstein, who said, “If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called research, would it?” Books of The Times: ?Being Wrong,? by Kathryn Schulz; ?Wrong,? by David H. Freedman 2010-06-10T21:43:00Z Central among them is the parable of the cave from Plato’s “Republic.” Now You See It: A Magician’s Memoir Promises Truth and Other Lies 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Like most poets since Plato, like Homer, Derek was something of a clairvoyant, and knew love was nothing without humility, or the way it clarifies truth. Derek Walcott, a Mighty Poet, Has Died 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z The most vivid image in the novel is that of the title, which is taken from a passage in Plato about how the mind is like an aviary full of birds. A Box of Birds by Charles Fernyhough – review 2013-05-10T14:00:02Z It opened with two quotes from Nietzsche and my old friend Plato. Our school shooting 2012-08-20T01:00:00Z He lived alone in a house in the woods in Lagunitas, Calif., and he had a wide range of interests that included Plato, bluegrass music, the New Testament and Vipassana meditation. The Writer Anne Lamott Gets to the Happily-Ever-After Part 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z In other words, the authorities and the artists were at odds about an issue as old as Plato: From the ruler’s perspective, the problem with art is that it incites irrational passions. Art Review: At Japan Society, Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi 2010-04-15T21:23:00Z The piece of paper on which she sketched the books will be at the Bodleian Library in Oxford next May in an exhibition called The Dark Is Rising: Magical Books from Plato to Pullman. Susan Cooper: a life in writing 2012-12-21T22:54:02Z Crooked makes a passing reference in this song to Plato's philosophical text "Symposium," in which characters, including the philosopher Socrates, compete performing improvised speeches. Kanye may not like books, but hip-hop fosters a love of literature 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z Although the writings of Plato and Aristotle are more famous, another ancient school of philosophy, Stoicism, cultivated an interest in music's therapeutic potential. How Stoicism influenced music from the French Renaissance to Pink Floyd 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z According to his biographers Plato and Xenophon, Socrates did not just search for the meaning of life, but the meaning of our own lives. Socrates ? a man for our times 2010-10-17T19:30:00Z There is something very deep about the human condition which is — and this is something which was as alive in Plato’s day as it is now — there’s a limit to how much we can know. What David Foster Wallace got wrong about irony: Our culture doesn’t have nearly enough of it 2014-04-27T15:30:00Z Included on it are many of the show’s touch points, predecessors and guardian angels: Plato, Adam and Eve, Mr. Bowie. Front Row: Arianne Phillips, Veteran Stylist, Makes Costume Design Broadway Debut 2014-04-16T22:29:45Z Plato, it should be noted, hated democracy, considering it to be a system good for training people to win election and little else. How do we make America great? 'Necessary Trouble' and 'Against Democracy' take contrasting views 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Still, Plato wasn’t impressed by his contemporary’s rather showy naturalness, once telling Diogenes, “How charming your unaffectedness would be if it weren’t affected.” Forget ‘Oh, the Places You’ll Go!’ A more creative book-gift for a new graduate. 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Idealist ancient thinkers such as Plato considered mind and spirit as the abiding reality. Do we live in a computer simulation like in The Matrix? My proposed new law of physics suggests so 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z The idea goes back to antiquity—Plato took it seriously—and has had some prominent supporters over the years, including psychologist William James and philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell. Is Consciousness Part of the Fabric of the Universe? 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z Consciousness has compelled philosophers since Plato, but over the last three decades, neuroscientists have entered the fray. 'Adversarial' search for neural basis of consciousness yields first results 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z But he saw in Plato’s combination of literary and philosophical depth a rarer achievement. Cormac McCarthy’s Work Is Rooted in Science 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z One chapter in this book by a philosopher named John Mark Reynolds is titled “Plato: Lover of Truth, Beauty, and the Good.” Ask Dr. E: How to argue the knowability of something that, by definition, can’t be known 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Instead, his beliefs and arguments were recorded by his student Plato, who committed them to prose despite sharing Socrates’ disdain for the written word. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Among the texts they brought were the complete works of Plato and copies of Aristotle’s works in the original Greek. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z The view that species were static and unchanging was grounded in the writings of Plato, yet there were also ancient Greeks that expressed evolutionary ideas. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z Aristotle was interesting and systematic, but he never created anything with the extraordinary richness and depth of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. Cormac McCarthy’s Work Is Rooted in Science 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Dr. Reynolds directs us to a critical exchange between Plato and Socrates in the book Symposium to make his point: “Now tell me about love,” Socrates says. Ask Dr. E: How to argue the knowability of something that, by definition, can’t be known 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Plato believed that the education of a future leader was of paramount importance, perhaps even more important than that leader’s skill in leading armies. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the arrival of Byzantine scholars and their copies of Plato and Aristotle, Italian humanists had focused primarily on the study of rhetoric and ethics. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Can you write a dialogue by Plato where instead he criticizes the use of autoregressive language models? Microsoft Says New A.I. Shows Signs of Human Reasoning 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z It’s easy to see McCarthy as a sort of Plato among the Aristotles of the Santa Fe Institute. Cormac McCarthy’s Work Is Rooted in Science 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Maybe there will eventually emerge a 21st-century Plato, and we will come to think of the Cal-Tech and its kin as having gifted us an entire new set of possibilities to our collective benefit. Opinion | What might ChatGPT do for humanity? The ancient Greeks offer a clue. 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Plato’s most gifted student was Aristotle, who founded his own institution of learning, the Lyceum, after he was passed over to lead the Academy following Plato’s death. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Access to Plato’s complete works changed that, and many scholars were influenced by Byzantine Neoplatonism, an intellectual movement that sought to synthesize the ideas of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoic philosophers, and Arabic philosophy. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Plato’s writings are the subject of these titular Greek lessons, especially his investigations into ideal forms, of which humans see only shadows. Review | Two intersecting lives, each grappling with a unique loss 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Reporter Sean Salai details how many of the initiatives to save traditional humanities education in college center on the “Great Books” reading program that includes Plato’s writings and Shakespeare’s plays. Higher Ground: If Jesus on the cross can forgive, so can we 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z A growing number of initiatives include Great Books programs that require students to read primary sources in fiction and nonfiction such as Shakespeare’s plays and Plato’s dialogues. Christians, conservatives work to save traditional liberal arts 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Plato claimed that politics and ethics were like this as well, with the Form of Justice superseding “real” laws and courts, but existing in the intellectual realm as something philosophers ought to contemplate. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the most important of the Italian Neoplatonists was Marsilio Ficino, who translated all of Plato’s works from ancient Greek to Latin and synthesized Platonic thought with the teachings of Christianity. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Not while we have the chance to invite our students to inhabit its crossroads and engage as interlocutors in its conversations with Plato, Averroes, Fibonacci, Wheatley and many more. Opinion | As Black educators, we endorse classical studies 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z The leaflets were highly literary, often citing writers and philosophers including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Plato and Aristotle, as well as the Bible. Traute Lafrenz Page, member of White Rose anti-Nazi resistance, dies at 103 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z On Fridays, he retreats from the modern world to a London library filled with the works of Plato, Sophocles, Virgil and others. Britain Wants Its Early Retirees Back, but Their Days Are ‘Never Boring’ 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z In Plato’s work The Republic he wrote of an imaginary polis in which political leaders were raised from childhood to become “philosopher-kings,” combining practical knowledge with a deep understanding of intellectual concepts. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z For Plato, however, the world of ideas, of abstract concepts, was superior to the components of the physical world. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z In Plato's dialogue Meno, Socrates coaxes the Pythagorean theorem out of an uneducated boy by asking him a series of simple questions. Babies Are Born with an Innate Number Sense 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Franco notes that the term “platonic love” was originally intended to reflect Plato’s vision of a love “so powerful it transcended the physical.” Want to be healthier? Hang out with your friends. 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z Lehner keeps the snakes at his reptile farm in Plato, Missouri. Vegas goalie Lehner files for bankruptcy, cites $50M debt 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z Plato founded a school, the Academy, in Athens, which remained in existence until the early Middle Ages as one of the greatest centers of thought in the world. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z One of these was Plato, who wrote dialogues from 399 BCE to his death in 347 BCE that featured Socrates in conversation with others. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Plato was among the first in the Western tradition to propose that humans have innate mathematical abilities. Babies Are Born with an Innate Number Sense 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Lehner keeps the snakes at his reptile farm in Plato, Missouri. NHL goalie files for bankruptcy, cites $50 million in debts 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z The source of that moral theory was Aristotle, inspired by his teacher, Plato, though neither used the term “natural law.” Opinion | America as a Christian nation? It’s complicated. 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z This was a far cry from the earnest inquiry of a Socrates, a Plato, or an Aristotle in trying to establish a virtuous form of politics. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z According to Plato, the true philosopher uses reason to comprehend these ideas and forms. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z In short, empiricism dominated philosophy and psychology until the second half of the 20th century, when nativist-friendly thinkers such as Noam Chomsky swung the pendulum back toward Plato. Babies Are Born with an Innate Number Sense 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z He urged his fellow lawmakers to regularly read “Plato’s Republic,” the Harvard Business Review and People magazine. Kevin McCarthy wins his dream job, but at a humiliating and stifling cost 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z Since Socrates taught Plato and Plato taught Aristotle, humanity has known that the best education is delivered one-to-one by an experienced educator. Is A.I. the Future of Test Prep? 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z One of the important aspects of the behavior of the “good emperors” is that they fit the model of a “philosopher-king” first described by Plato centuries earlier. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Plato established a school at the Academy, which was a gymnasium or public park near Athens where people went to relax and exercise. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Whereas Plato proposed that we have innate mathematical knowledge, or a capacity to think about numbers, we argue that we have innate mathematical perception—an ability to see or sense numbers. Babies Are Born with an Innate Number Sense 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z The actors’ training regimen has involved audio versions, movie adaptations, vocabulary quizzes, translation drills and even discussions of Plato’s “Republic” to enrich their themes and metaphors. How to improvise a wildly entertaining new Shakespeare play every night 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z In Plato’s metaphor of the cave and the whole Enlightenment project, the metaphor is one of light dispelling darkness. Why artist William Kentridge is embracing shadows in his new Broad show 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Does that mean you should devote your evenings to arguing with Plato, working your way through Dante and learning how to live from Montaigne? Perspective | Why read old books? A case for the classic, the unusual, the neglected. 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z The philosophical schools of Plato and Aristotle, the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides, the plays of Athenian dramatists, and the art of Greek sculptors, architects, and painters have inspired European thinkers and artists for centuries. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Mr. Cahill earned a scholarship to Regis High School, the elite Jesuit private school on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, where he was introduced to the work of Plato and Augustine at age 14. Thomas Cahill, best-selling explorer of the Western past, dies at 82 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Plato was said to have dispensed his wisdom under an olive tree and the olive’s widespread cultivation in Spain goes back to the Romans. Drought tests resilience of Spain’s olive groves and farmers 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z He considers Plato’s efforts with the tyrants of Syracuse, Aristotle’s influence on Alexander the Great and Seneca’s failures with the perverse Nero before going on to more general reflections on character and power. Review | Self-help philosophy, inspired by Socrates, that avoids hard questions 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Elli Papakonstantinou, a director and activist known for her avant-garde interpretations of ancient Greek plays, recently staged “Eros,” a staged multimedia version of “Symposium” by Plato. For Early Democracy, Theater Was a Catalyst 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Among the most prominent craters are those named for Plato, Copernicus, Tycho, and Kepler. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Along with his teacher, Plato, Aristotle is considered one of the pillars of Western philosophy. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z In this section, Socrates, Plato’s teacher, and Glaucon, Plato’s older brother, discuss the relationship between education and the human soul. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Indeed, when the ancients wrote about color, from Homer and Parmenides to Plato and Aristotle, their terminology often seems decidedly foreign. Review | What if the ancient Greeks and Romans actually had terrible taste? 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z We found that when we trusted viewers to make their own choices about how to participate, the piece offered a way to see Plato’s democratic promise in action. Perspective | We can transform local government by treating it as a kind of theater 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z What, is Rivera a Plato man and Mills an Aristotle student? LOVERRO: An unfortunately Commanders-esque start to the season 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z Plato’s Republic is perhaps one of the best-known early texts examining the concept of a just society and the role of the citizen. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z In his allegory, Plato compares the prisoners’ climb from the cave into the light of day to people learning what reality is. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Her most prominent “Star Trek” moment came in a 1968 episode, “Plato’s Stepchildren,” about a group of “superior” beings who use mind control to make the visiting Enterprise crew submit to their will. Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura in ‘Star Trek’ franchise, dies at 89 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z In “The Emancipated Spectator,” he examines Plato’s foundational writings on democracy. Perspective | We can transform local government by treating it as a kind of theater 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z First aired on Nov. 22, 1968, the episode called “Plato’s Stepchildren” featured a race of aliens who worshiped the earthly philosopher Plato. Nichelle Nichols, who played the communications officer on the Starship Enterprise, has died 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z Much of Plato’s Republic imagines this just city. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Plato uses the problem-and-solution reasoning strategy to offer a way to solve people’s ignorance. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z The view that species were unchanging was grounded in the writings of Plato, yet there were also ancient Greeks that expressed evolutionary ideas. Environmental Biology 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z According to Rancière, Plato holds that if democracy really is a government of equals, no one is better suited to lead than anyone else. Perspective | We can transform local government by treating it as a kind of theater 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Aristotle studied under Plato and tutored Alexander the Great. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z Plato’s notion of three tiers of society—guardians, auxiliaries, and laborers—corresponds with elements of the soul. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Plato compares the prisoners’ climb from the cave into the light of day to people learning reality. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Actually, justice has been a contested concept since Plato wrote. Opinion | Business beware, ‘stakeholder’ capitalism is parasitic progressivism 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Plato wasn’t sure this was a good thing. Perspective | We can transform local government by treating it as a kind of theater 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Plato likened our perceptions of things to shadows cast on the wall of a cave. When Things Feel Unreal, Is That a Delusion or an Insight? 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z In Plato’s view, individuals should keep to the jobs they know best. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z In the last paragraph, Plato says that “in the world of knowledge the idea of good appears last of all.” Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z From Plato to David Petraeus, distinguished writers have tried to uncover the essential principles and behaviors of successful leaders. Review | A book on leadership that offers real leaders, not abstract theories 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z A democracy requires that the numerical majority exercises wisdom and awareness, the qualities Plato ascribed to the benign aristocracy. Opinion | School is for learning. That’s it. 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z More than 2,000 years ago, Master Zhuang dreamed he was a butterfly, and Plato imagined shadows dancing on a cave wall. Review | Emily St. John Mandel’s ‘Sea of Tranquility’ is a mind-bending novel 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z Aristophanes’s depiction of Socrates is ridiculous, and Plato appears to think that this depiction is partially responsible for Socrates’s ultimate trial and death. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Four amplified women stridently intoned in Greek bizarre bits from Plato’s “Republic” about which modes are manly and which are not. Review: L.A. Phil revives 'Noon to Midnight' with startling, riotous sound 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z Instead of building another theme park, he wants to create his own futuristic city, a new version of Plato’s Republic in which he’s the founding Philosopher King. Review: Dark side of Walt Disney brought to weird life in Lucas Hnath's drama, now playing in L.A. 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z In a democracy, education is the means by which the majority turns itself into the enlightened aristocracy that Plato warns us is necessary for survival. Opinion | School is for learning. That’s it. 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z Plato believed that humans were uniquely attuned to geometry; the linguist Noam Chomsky has argued that language is a biologically rooted human capacity. Is Geometry a Language That Only Humans Know? 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z Finally, and most important, Socrates’s student and friend Plato made Socrates the central figure in nearly all of his dialogues. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Along with show tunes and small incidental piano pieces, the main orchestral music is composed of the violin concerto, “Serenade After Plato’s ‘Symposium’” and dances from “West Side Story.” The Hamburg Ballet tackles Bach and Bernstein with rich imagery and movement 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z That's common language at Hillsdale, where classes and promotional materials promise an education driven by "the good, the beautiful and the true" — rhetoric drawn from Plato and Aristotle, but also ubiquitous in conservative Christian discourse. Coming to a school near you: Stealth religion and a Trumped-up version of American history 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z And those classes at Holy Cross and those lives are captured in 'Young Plato' - a new feature length documentary. Holy Cross: Young Plato features Belfast primary pupils inspired by philosophers 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z The report refers to the French business developing other robots including the humanoid Romeo, which was a research project begun in 2009 looking at helping people with reduced physical autonomy, and a food-serving robot, Plato. EXCLUSIVE French auditor questions SoftBank's accounting at Pepper robot developer 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Plato and Aristotle are the most influential of the Athenian philosophers and have had a profound influence on the development of Western philosophy. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Later, Plato wrote down the conversations of Socrates “as a means of philosophical investigation.” World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z By July 12, the company had secretly set up the Project Plato team. Special Report: Inside J&J’s secret plan to cap litigation payouts to cancer victims 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z But right outside the school gates is the school mural, depicting a pupil in the pose of Rodin's The Thinker surrounded by pictures of Aristotle, Socrates and Plato. Holy Cross: Young Plato features Belfast primary pupils inspired by philosophers 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Exploring the underlying nature of reality has been an obsession of philosophers since the time of Socrates and Plato. Opinion | We Might Be in a Simulation. How Much Should That Worry Us? 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z Plato wrote exclusively in the form of dialogues, where his characters engage in discussion centered on philosophical issues. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z In addition to scientific works, scholars at the House of Wisdom in Baghdad translated works of Greek philosophers like Aristotle and Plato into Arabic. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The healthcare and consumer-goods giant assigned more than 30 staffers to “Project Plato.” Special Report: Inside J&J’s secret plan to cap litigation payouts to cancer victims 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Those conflicts, discussions and resolutions are depicted in Young Plato. Holy Cross: Young Plato features Belfast primary pupils inspired by philosophers 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Like Plato, who perceived emotion as a horse and reason as its driver, Western thinkers have long distinguished rational thoughts from non-rational ones. Why our emotions are so powerful 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z Most of what we know about Socrates is derived from Plato’s depiction of him as the primary questioner in most of the dialogues. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Plato wrote his most famous work, The Republic. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I think Plato was smarter than what his view developed into. Leonard Mlodinow, author of "Emotional," on how fear and disgust are your brain's friends 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z Young Plato is on general release in cinemas in Northern Ireland from Friday 11 March and in the Republic of Ireland from Friday 18 March. Holy Cross: Young Plato features Belfast primary pupils inspired by philosophers 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Like many others inside, he embraced books as education and escape, starting with Socrates and Plato and on to Dickens, Dumas, Tolstoy and Byron. Out of a prison, into a pandemic 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z The speech Socrates gave in his own defense to the Athenians, as recorded by Plato, remains a vivid and compelling defense of the sort of life he lived. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Plato’s writings dominated philosophic thought in Europe for nearly 1,500 years. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm not a Plato scholar, but I think it wasn't so much the boss as someone to control the horses. Leonard Mlodinow, author of "Emotional," on how fear and disgust are your brain's friends 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z For Prof Smith, the film's Marxist narrative evokes Plato's allegory of chained prisoners in a cave "who mistake the shadows on the wall for reality". The Matrix's real-world legacy - from red pill incels to conspiracies and deepfakes 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z Maybe that’s the wrong cliché: The shadows on the wall of Plato’s cave stopped being metaphors. Hollywood Still Matters. These Actors Showed Why. 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z In fact, Plato tells us that Socrates’s mother was a midwife and that he assumes her role in philosophical conversation. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z The teachings of Plato and Aristotle continued to be very influential in Hellenistic philosophy. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He devoured the works of Plato, George Washington and, his favourite, Abraham Lincoln. Veteran Republican leader Bob Dole dies 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z Plato said the eye is the window to the soul. A Utah company says it revolutionized truth-telling technology. Experts are highly skeptical. 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z But don’t expect to find T-shirts or coffee mugs celebrating that designation in any local stores, or any regrets as Plato loses this claim to fame. America is about to find where its once-a-decade heart is 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Western readers should take care not to reduce Samkhya’s metaphysics and epistemology to the various dualistic systems seen in, for example, the account of the soul in Plato’s Phaedo or in Christian metaphysics more generally. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z SoftBank engineers in France have been working on a secret project to design a serving robot called Plato, according to the sources and documents reviewed by Reuters. EXCLUSIVE SoftBank in talks to sell French robotics business to Germany's United Robotics 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z “I sold a ton of stuff to Plato’s Closet and Once Upon a Child to get rid of it,” says Sharp. Millennial Money: Save for holidays now, skip regret later 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z But this profoundly important point, one subtly explored by ancient Greek philosophers like Plato and Aristotle, doesn’t really get developed. Review | The power of rational thinking in a world that seems unreasonable 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Most folks in Texas County, which is home to Plato, have no idea they’re at the center of the U.S., said Scott Long, the presiding commissioner of Texas County, where beef cattle outnumber people. America is about to find where its once-a-decade heart is 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, which describes humanity as prisoners within a cave reacting to shadows on the wall, might be read in terms of how it contributes to debates in epistemology or metaphysics. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z She invokes Plato and Aristotle, ancient theorists of a rational cosmos, and her show includes a cabinet of curiosities modeled on the ones first assembled by European scholars in the 16th century. At the AU Museum, two artists take on a fraught natural world, from different angles 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z I repeated to her the anecdote about how my father discovered the image of Socrates, which led to a lifelong devotion to his student Plato, in whose dialogues his genius is preserved. Searching for Plato With My 7-Year-Old 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z In Plato’s “Protagoras,” Socrates argues that dancing girls have no place in philosophical gatherings. Dancing Through New York in a Summer of Joy and Grief 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z In fact, the challenge is more than two millennia old, attributed to Plato by way of Plutarch. Infinity Category Theory Offers a Bird’s-Eye View of Mathematics 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z However, it is anachronistic and inaccurate to claim that this is exclusively what it is about, as the Allegory of the Cave also has political significance specific to Plato’s time and social context. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z In a statement, Mayor Dan Plato acknowledged that there were heritage issues to be considered. Amazon's Cape Town base: The battle to save South African culture 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Somewhere in this park there were the archaeological ruins of Plato’s Academy, where he taught, among others, Aristotle, tutor of Alexander the Great and one of the finest minds the world has ever witnessed. Searching for Plato With My 7-Year-Old 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Look for the paved path accented by a series of rock sculptures paired with philosophical musings from Lao Tze, Plato and others. A lovely Mount Baker walk with parks, pets, art and history, drawn by Seattle Walk Report 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Clayton described Perry and fellow Jamaican dub producer King Tubby as the scene’s “Plato and Socrates, laying down the foundations of contemporary electronic music culture.” Imagination, razor blades and ganja: How Lee 'Scratch' Perry changed the sound of popular music 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Plato, who had relatives among the Thirty Tyrants, was thought to be sympathetic to the Thirty Tyrants and suspicious of those who were advocating for democracy. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Plato's school was even outside, in a grove of trees called Akadēmía. Why is walking so good for the brain? Blame on the "spontaneous fluctuations" 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z This was where we know that Plato developed and lectured on the Good — or value itself, something even “greater than justice and the other virtues” — which he made famous in “The Republic” through Socrates’ ventriloquy. Searching for Plato With My 7-Year-Old 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z But the traditional idea of spin is quaint in this new world of outright lies and cartoonish abandonment of truth, with Kellyanne Conway serving as a discount Plato with her “alternative facts.” Perspective | ‘Telling the truth shouldn’t be hard.’ So let’s tell the truth. 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z Plato presents himself as this enlightened being in his famous parable of the cave, which I make my freshman humanities classes read every semester. Quantum Mechanics, Plato's Cave and the Blind Piranha 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z But when we realize that the Thirty Tyrants were the government responsible for Athens’s humiliating defeat and for the death of Plato’s beloved teacher Socrates, we understand why Plato questions the limits of human understanding. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Mr. Andriessen gained worldwide attention after the 1976 premiere of “De Staat,” his bright, insistently static setting of a section of Plato’s “Republic,” scored for instrumental ensemble and four female voices. Louis Andriessen, avant-garde composer of ‘personal, aggressive’ music, dies at 82 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z For Plato and Socrates, speech was inherently superior to writing because writing was no longer living. Searching for Plato With My 7-Year-Old 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z It was Plato who warned "birds of a feather flock together". Euros 2020: What all of us can learn from Gareth Southgate 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z We are the benighted prisoners in the cave, and Plato, the enlightened philosopher, is trying to drag us into the light. Quantum Mechanics, Plato's Cave and the Blind Piranha 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z Plato’s hope is to foster generations of individuals who have a greater understanding of truth and will serve capably in government. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z In May, the inquiry heard Mr Sexton declared Operation Plato, a pre-arranged terrorist plan, within minutes but did not alert the fire and ambulance services. Manchester Arena Inquiry: Ex-GMP officer investigated over evidence 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z The pupils who had the chance to sit before Plato in this garden were some of the luckiest in all of intellectual history. Searching for Plato With My 7-Year-Old 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Such sensitivities were taken account when considering the project, Cape Town Mayor Dan Plato said in a statement, announcing his approval of the development. Heritage dispute engulfs site chosen for Amazon’s new African HQ 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z But isn’t it possible, even probable, that Plato and other self-appointed saviors, who say they’ve seen the light and want us to see it too, are charlatans? Quantum Mechanics, Plato's Cave and the Blind Piranha 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z Indeed, this point of view was highly influential, not only for Plato and Aristotle, but also for the early atomists, like Democritus, who held that all perceived qualities are merely human conventions. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z "You … stated that the second part of the speech, which references Plato, Darwin and other religions, was acceptable because it discusses different philosophies," First Liberty attorneys told Wegher in the letter. Michigan valedictorian's speech censored, criticized as 'very Christianized': complaint 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z Plato documented how the Socratic method, which aims to promote critical thinking through questions, would be imitated by the impressionable youth of Athens. A Florida Republican says Socrates would be canceled today. The philosopher faced a different fate: Execution. 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z Like the flickering silhouettes on the wall in Plato’s allegory of the cave, the existence of macroscopic, so-called “classical” objects is merely a shadow cast by their true quantum forms. Scientists Supersize Quantum Effects with Entangled Drum Duet 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z He said he declared Operation Plato, a pre-arranged plan for a suspected marauding armed terrorist, within minutes of the bomb being detonated. Manchester Arena Inquiry: Police chief 'broke policy to save lives' 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z For instance, Plato devised an elaborate thought experiment in The Republic, in which he depicts Socrates and several of his friends describing an ideal city. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Cape Town mayor Dan Plato said some valuable works were lost but many were saved by roller doors that were activated to seal off parts of the library. Residents evacuated as mountain fire spreads in Cape Town 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z “All of philosophy is training for death,” he said, according to Plato’s “Phaedo.” A Florida Republican says Socrates would be canceled today. The philosopher faced a different fate: Execution. 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z Plato thought this power too consequential to be entrusted to poets, whom he would ban from his ideal republic, leaving the politics of representation in the hands of philosopher kings. Representation isn't just about visibility. Shootings remind us it's about life and death 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Ch Insp Sexton said he was "very aware of the real possibility of secondary attacks" but added that Operation Plato was "too rigid" and "too formal" at the time of the attack. Manchester Arena Inquiry: Police chief 'broke policy to save lives' 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z As all things within a person’s reality are subject to change, Plato reasoned that the forms or unchanging basic realities concerning all things must not be located within this world. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z A lot of our answers came from essentialism, the Plato and Aristotle thing. Having a good cry with Pixar's Pete Docter 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z Hyperbolus’s incendiary lies became a plotline in theatrical plays written by Plato and today a derivation of his name, hyperbole, means: “exaggerated claims not to be taken literally.” Opinion | Lessons for those who rioted on Jan. 6 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z Amid erroneous reports of gunfire and an active shooter on the loose he declared Operation Plato, the police response to a marauding terrorist firearms attack. Manchester Arena attack: Ambulance service warned medical delays would 'cost lives' 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z Inspectors told GMP the force's plans for Operation Plato were deficient but this was never passed on to Mr Lear. Manchester Arena attack: Senior officers 'may not have read new terror plan' 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z What does the Sun represent within Plato’s Allegory of the Cave? Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z The rabbi quoted Plato’s line about music giving “soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination” — the same line that Ms. Vertenstein chose for the program for last spring’s recital. A Musical Life With Echoes That Will Last 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z Why did we let them continue for four devastating years, like the blind, chained inhabitants of Plato's allegorical cave, unable to escape their isolation because, trapped by ignorance and darkness, they couldn't know the truth? Escaping the "Mussolini moment": Trump's enablers and the banality of evil 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z Operation Plato was declared by a duty officer from Greater Manchester Police some 16 minutes after the 2017 bomb. Manchester response 'not as expected', counter-terror boss says 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z Chris Bacik of the county sheriff’s department was taking an inventory of evidence at the department and found blood that was taken from Plato after he was killed. Police: Newly found blood sample solves 1988 homicide 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z The original impetus behind revising Plato’s traditional JTB analysis was to solve the Gettier problem, and Goldman’s account cannot do this. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z “My father, when he was teaching me Lao-Tse or Confucius, would also quote Aristotle or Plato or Bertrand Russell or Voltaire.” Fou Ts’ong, Chinese pianist who bridged East and West, dies at 86 of covid-19 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Plato held that we and other things of this world are mere shadows of the sublime geometric forms that constitute reality. Is the Schrödinger Equation True? 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Mr Thomas, from Counter Terrorism Policing HQ, agreed that communication to key agencies after Plato is declared was important. Manchester response 'not as expected', counter-terror boss says 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z When Plato derided democracy as a form of government too reliant on easy promises, he likened it to fashion. Opinion | Fashion Will Not Disappear. It Will Transform. 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z For ancient philosophers like Plato and Aristotle, beauty is a quality of an object. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z “The way Plato and Socrates brought things up.” Santa working from ho-ho-home during coronavirus pandemic 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z As real as or even more real than nature itself, as Plato insisted? Is the Schrödinger Equation True? 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z “Nonprofits are doing an amazing job not only of innovating but adhering to C.D.C. guidelines,” of social distancing, said Laura Plato, the chief solutions officer of VolunteerMatch, which connects volunteers with nonprofits across the country. What’s the Right Way to Give in a Pandemic? 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z Think of the Gemini stars Castor and Pollux, Romulus and Remus creating Rome, and Plato articulating the dual nature of humanity. Land of shuang bao tai: twins in Yunnan province – a photo essay 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z In contrast to Plato and Aristotle, Enlightenment philosophers argued that beauty is a subjective judgment, meaning it is a statement about what a person feels rather a quality of an object. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Breakfast is to-go only and reservations are necessary at the resort’s Plato’s Restaurant. Precautions help Aspen remain a destination during pandemic 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z She added, “It’s like Plato’s allegory of the cave and the theory of forms coming-of-age!” Can a Computer Devise a Theory of Everything? 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z “What we’ve found was in March, 93 percent of all volunteering was canceled,” said Laura Plato, chief solutions officer at Volunteer Match. Demands on Nonprofit Groups Rose in the Pandemic, Even as Volunteering Fell 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Plato's goal is to detect and characterise true Earth-like rocky planets. Europe moves ahead with Ariel exoplanet mission 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z In Plato’s imagined city, the most just city is one in which each member of society occupies the social role they are the best equipped for based on their talents. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z “What passed for politics now was just dramaturgy. Sow conflict, promise consequence. Perhaps Plato wasn’t wrong to warn us about a city overrun with storytellers.” No matter who wins the election, artists will called upon to repair a broken nation 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z Operation Plato is a plan for dealing with a suspected marauding armed terrorist and the chief constable said declaring it was "a dilemma". Birmingham stabbings: Terrorism decision 'may have saved lives' 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z Plato wrote of Socrates exploring the connection between the soul and the republic in creating the virtue of justice. Biden and Trump Say They’re Fighting for America’s ‘Soul.’ What Does That Mean? 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z In an age that doesn’t have time to read Florentine humanist commentaries on Plato, we can only express our wonder at the Renaissance greats through a price tag. The $80m Botticelli: could its auction trigger a Covid-rescue fire sale? 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z As you will see later in this chapter, this same concept—a single, invisible, unchanging substance expressing itself through forms to give rise to the material world—is the key principle in Plato’s metaphysics. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Sarah Waldrop’s oil paintings hang along the sides near her studio space across from a library with everything from Plato to children’s literature to animal encyclopedias. Virginia couple finds freedom living in converted school bus 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z For example, Heisenberg and Pauli’s attempts recall Plato’s idea of a timeless realm of perfect forms underlying our observed reality. When quantum physics met psychiatry 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z She lives in Europe, where Plato pioneered Western political philosophy, warning that demagogues could make democracy a springboard to tyranny. Opinion | Authoritarianism and the politics of emotion 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z So there he is, among this philosophical elite, who share the rediscovered wisdom of such ancient authors as Plato and Lucretius, recently rediscovered in Florence. The $80m Botticelli: could its auction trigger a Covid-rescue fire sale? 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Rather, Plato wrote dialogues featuring his mentor Socrates engaged in philosophical debate with various individuals in Athens, some of them his fellow citizens and other prominent visitors to the city. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z In ancient Greece, Plato and Aristotle worried about and discussed the threat to community, to social cohesion, posed by inequalities of wealth and income. COVID makes clear how the consequences of inequality can be fatal 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z Like the troglodytes in Plato's allegory of the cave, they have lost the ability to discern truth from lies. Welcome to Donald Trump's terrordome: But even this may not save him 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z But Plato is more remembered for his allegory of the cave, in which he speculated about certain idealized and eternal forms, of which only garbled versions existed in the real world. From rocks to icebergs, the natural world tends to break into cubes 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Plato, paraphrasing Sophocles, equated it with freedom: “When the passions relax their hold … we are freed from the grasp not of one mad master, only, but of many.” When the President Shows You an Old Man Shouting ‘White Power’ 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z At least a few of the thinkers considered part of this school were contemporaries of Socrates and are mentioned in Plato’s dialogues. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Dispute: In his “Republic,” Plato argues that the ideal society must exile its poets. Rulers vs. writers: The pre-Trump pre-history of author suppression 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z “They were carrying on conversations about philosophy, debating between Plato and Aristotle.” The Walls of the Church Couldn’t Keep the Trump Era Out 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z “I thought that would be a way to have something potentially good come out of being sick,” Plato said. Waiting period rules for blood donations reflect homophobia rather than science, activists say 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z In seeking answers, Christians imported concepts of predestination from the metaphysics of Plato and Aristotle with mixed — and sometimes disastrous — results. Review: In Percival Everett's three-version "Telephone," it's always the dealer's choice 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z Foremost among these are the Sophists, traveling teachers of rhetoric who serve as foils for Plato’s philosophers. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z “I’d been using Plato’s cave among lots of different thought experiments in youth work for a few years,” he continues. Drillosophy: why UK rappers are teaching Plato in lockdown 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z She is most animated during our conversation when talking about the philosophers she read as a teen who informed her moral code – Plato, Epictetus, Isaiah Berlin. Susan Fowler: ‘When the time came to blow the whistle on Uber, I was ready’ 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z Plato has been married for years, and both he and his spouse are monogamous, which puts him in a lower risk category for contracting HIV. Waiting period rules for blood donations reflect homophobia rather than science, activists say 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z "I think Plato said, 'If you have no enemies, then you have no real friends'," the actor muses. Steve Coogan: We ignore gap between rich and poor 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Pythagoreans also believed in the transmigration of souls, an idea that Plato would adopt. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Emerson, a great American essayist of the 19th century, wrote his line about striking at kings when a pupil, the future supreme court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, attempted to refute Plato. Trump seems to confirm campaign of 'grievance, persecution and resentment' 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z Plato once wrote, "Science is nothing but perception." A Nobel Laureate retracted her high-profile paper. Bravo! 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z Plato tried to sidestep the restriction through the Red Cross directed donations option when a friend of a friend needed help. Waiting period rules for blood donations reflect homophobia rather than science, activists say 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Partridge once boasted of his "basic grasp of Latin", not Greek, but like Plato, he's not against making enemies. Steve Coogan: We ignore gap between rich and poor 2020-02-17T05:00:00Z Plato deliberately dramatized the life of his teacher Socrates. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Over two thousand years ago, Plato, in the Meno, pondered the origins of new knowledge. Machines have learned how to be creative. What does that mean for the future of art? 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z Socrates and Plato: In an attempt to outsmart his perpetually smug teacher at the third annual Greek National Spelling Bee held at the Grand Hyatt Athens in 401 B.C., Perspective | Think the Astros cheated? Look at Marie Antoinette. 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z “I thought perhaps the rule might be different for a specific patient, so I asked in terms of that one specific person. The rules still prohibit me from donating,” Plato said. Waiting period rules for blood donations reflect homophobia rather than science, activists say 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Plato posited the existence of an eternal realm of perfect forms, of which our material world is just a shadowy simulacrum. Do We Possess a Transpersonal Imagination? 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z One of the key questions of Plato’s scholarship is exactly how many liberties he took in depicting the life of his teacher. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z “It happened with the radio. This happened with TV. There was a huge amount of skepticism about reading Plato because he was writing and no one could argue versus yelling into a public square.” This Is the Guy Who’s Taking Away the Likes 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Plato sparked controversy by employing shadow puppets on the brightly lit north wall of the banquet hall to help him spell out different entries. Perspective | Think the Astros cheated? Look at Marie Antoinette. 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z While searching the area, officers say they found Plato’s body. Police: Suspect in north Phoenix homicide arrested in Yuma 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Membership in Liberty Healthshare, a ministry established by Mennonites in Canton, Ohio, was less than half the price, according to Plato, who blogged about his experience. It looks like health insurance but it’s not. ‘Just trust God,’ buyers are told 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Scholars generally agree that the dialogues that Plato wrote early in his career are more faithful to the life of Socrates than later ones. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Rules as old as Plato dictate that a dramatist must love equally their characters, arm and equip opponents with arguments of equal power. The idea of two popes at once intrigued, but how to let each land a punch in their debate? 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z This step, Jaspers argued, was prompted by the teachings of lone cultural innovators — Plato, the Hebrew prophets, Zarathustra, Buddha and Confucius — and initiated a trend that eventually touched the entire globe. When did societies become modern? ‘Big history’ dashes popular idea of Axial Age 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z Police say Plato’s death appeared to be suspicious and was being investigated as a homicide. Police: Suspect in north Phoenix homicide arrested in Yuma 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Plato says a small bill for flu shots went unpaid and ended up in collection. It looks like health insurance but it’s not. ‘Just trust God,’ buyers are told 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Gradually, Plato has Socrates give voice to more positive doctrines. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z |
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