Plato was in vogue then, and Plato believed in central planning by intellectuals in the context of communal property, centralized state education, state centralized cultural offerings and communal family structure.

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Taking a grim view of the Periclean era in Athens, Plato and Aristotle believed that democracy inevitably led to tyranny.

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Wright even suggests that Wilde discovered his sexuality in the pages of Plato.

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He will quote you a nice point in the old authors, from Plato to Plautus and back again.

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He says, however, that in a number of respects, Plato's reporting simply does not square with the geological evidence.

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Socrates and Plato were deeply interested in the ideas of sophists such as Protagoras and Gorgias because their ideas were profound.

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As Plato noted, nothing in the natural world is pure, including events.

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Progressive thinkers from Plato to Rousseau down to Marx sought to shrink the nuclear family in favor of the collective.

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Like Plato, Goethe or Berlin, writers and philosophers had long drifted in and out of public view, holding forth on life in general.

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Plato, then driving for Seat, won two of the three races when the BTCC visited Snetterton in 2008.

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Forth, let the classical values of Plato and Aristotle, wisdom, courage, self-control, justice, and moderation, guide citizens in the quest for ways to improve their lives and the lives of their fellow citizens.

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