Tag: Plato
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The Philosopher President
by ProfDave, ©2023 (Feb. 26, 2023) — During the last months or so my mind has been jolted a couple times with how fundamental the malaise of our society really is. First, in the middle of asking what makes the USA such a great place to live it struck me that the American uniqueness wasn’t…
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Putin “Callicles the Younger” and Trump “Callicles the Elder”?
PLATO WAS NO MUG? October 23, 2019 Dear Editor, Sadly, so many “educated but unlearned” so-called intellectuals (not to mention really dopey “clever people”) do not study, let alone heed, history! I wonder if Plato’s The Gorgias heralds in today’s looming showdown between Russia and America, with Putin cast as “Callicles the Younger” and Trump…
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Righting Our Ship of State
HAS PLATO’S WORST FEAR, “MOB RULE,” ARRIVED? by Dr. Thomas E. Davis, Col., USA (Ret), ©2016 (Sep. 12, 2016) — Around 380 BC, the Grecian philosopher, Plato, a student of Socrates, wrote “The Republic.” This work was a dissertation on government. Plato discussed the character of the “Just” city state and Justice in general. This…
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Civilization in the 21st Century
CAN MANKIND SURVIVE ITS OWN DESTRUCTION? by OPOVV, ©2013 (Sep. 29, 2013) — Did you ever notice that, no matter what size the crowd, there’s always one who “just doesn’t get it?” Sometimes it’s rather amusing, such as watching someone trying to shove an over-stuffed backpack into an overhead bin; at other times it’s not so funny,…
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There’s Only One Lifeboat
HAS OUR SHIP OF STATE SUNK? by OPOVV, ©2012 (Nov. 14, 2012) — Picture the Ship of State having been hijacked, the crew (government employees) and the officers of the deck (members of the Cabinet) all standing behind an unqualified captain, a person who has refused to show his papers because, no doubt, he doesn’t meet…
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Is “gay marriage” a historical imperative?
IS AMERICA BECOMING A MARXIST UTOPIA? by Don Hank (Aug. 12, 2010) — According to expert testimony before the House in 1963, the 26th of the “Current Communist Goals” was: 26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.” My recent response to the court decision by a homosexual judge in California supposedly making…