Show L Letters to the Editor Philosopher s It is exceedingly difficult for me to conceive of the moral excellence of Plato's You get a little of that old republic in almost every philosophy and the student especially those who have read very little of will vouch with certainty for the significant and wondrous impact that Plato has had upon modern To be sure Plato has had awesome results in this endeavor as is evidenced by the success of his Lenin and Most thoughtless readers who reserve a place in their hearts for philosophers using expletives with reference to good old and truth and an undying allegiance to the will acknowledge Plato's position at the head of a sort of philosophical They are quickly lost in the haze of platonic and they fail to detect the reactionary tendencies of that political minded enemy of the noble who very cleverly and artistically conceals his true It was good old according to who expressed the wish to have the works of destroyed to which fulfillment has so thoroughly answered tat no testimony of In platonic philosophy is the most successful source of present and miserable intellectual The ideals of Plato combined with human nature have and will governments in which the educated are to whom everyone and everything is in which the ingenuity of untruthfulness shall exhaust itself in the effort to prove that there is a genetic difference between upper and lower classed in which infanticide is rationalized and as a defense and preservation of superior and in which human nature will be miraculously changed to the extent that status quo in all its ugly will be eternally Amidst men like Bertrand William George San-tayana and John Plato is absolutely The best that can be said of his is that he is WILLIAM C. POWERS Read Rebuttal Dear Would it be of me to ask Joan B. Glad how she has attained this depth of erudition and understanding that enables her with so little consideration to judge Read's as really a rebuttal at and to point out of Read's poor taste and lack of If she really is qualified to pass such I suggest that she present more convincing Without knowing I should be willing to wager that Read has and philosophy for many more years than she has been on this earth and knows more about her own religion than she will ever It would be safer for Joan to assume that Read is not speaking from of and that she simply does not understand what he is dear is purely Those of us who have escaped from unquestioning devotion or obsequious groveling to your find Read's comparison of one man's need for God to another man's need for a crutch an excellent A man who seeks escape in the bottle is termed or but not so the man who looks to his religion for or it is as difficult for one who has grown up in an atmosphere of unquestioning faith in Christianity to throw off the shackles of religion as it is for the alcoholic to give up the And like the crippled man who gives up his he walks for a long time on wobbly But those like you who cling so to their religion can not be expected to understand the wonderful feeling of and that comes with finally being able to walk By the way the chapter in Mathew is not and the word is not and it seems to me in poor taste to address Read as It was big of to forgive but I personally believe it not at all probable that knew not what he BILL Press Conference Maurice Abravanel will be the guest at the weekly press conference in the Audio-Visual Annex Interviewers will include journalism and High school Anyone who is interested may |