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Get ready for your newest alternative shopping spot in Poughkeepsie: Plato's Closet

Poughkeepsie Journal 09 Sep 2024
If you like to thrift shop, are into more sustainable and eco-friendly shopping alternatives or are on TikTok and Instagram Reels, you may have heard of Plato's Closet ... Keeping up with Plato's Closet Poughkeepsie.
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What the Right Gets Wrong About the Ancient History of Gender

Time 09 Sep 2024
That’s clear from foundational works by revered thinkers like Plato ... Nowhere is that clearer than in Plato’s Symposium, which was written in the early fourth century BCE in classical Athens ... Plato and ...
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Comment on Democracy under siege? Society’s eternal vigilance is key – a rejoinder by Abdulai Mansaray

Sierra Leone Telegraph 09 Sep 2024
“on a great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and The White House will be adorned by a downright moron”( July 26th, 1920).”Plato’s warnings about ...
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A symphony for all seasons

China Daily 09 Sep 2024
Featuring violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley, the first concertmaster of the Berliner Philharmoniker, the concert included Bernstein's Serenade (after Plato's Symposium), a composition for the solo violin, strings, harp and percussion ... 1/4 Next. .
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The Bewildered American Voter, by Philip Kraske

The Unz Review 09 Sep 2024
Nor, like Plato’s prisoners, do they want to escape the cave and face reality, for this would require reading, for which they have little time, and thinking, which they reserve for their paid time.
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Storytelling: A transformative technique

Deccan Herald 09 Sep 2024
Even philosophical giants like Plato acknowledged the power of myths and stories in shaping young minds’ moral and intellectual development.</p>.<p>In the Indian context, storytelling is ...
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Brand Building in Ancient Greece

Greek Reporter 09 Sep 2024
Credit. Thanos Matanis / Greek Reporter ... Visual branding ... Temples ... Credit. Mountain. Public Domain ... Although none of his speeches survive, Plato and Aristotle both describe Gorgias’ rhetorical technique as dazzling his audience with clever language.
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It is essential to forget

Deccan Herald 08 Sep 2024
But, imagine if we can really inculcate to “forget” as advised by Plato, we will definitely be de-clogging our memory, facilitating ample memory capacity probably doing away the need for searching the passbooks again.</p> .
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Taliban gives law a bad name

Daily Telegram 08 Sep 2024
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban recently codified its rules specifying what women cannot do ... Plato (427-347 B.C.) denounced "laws which . ... ." ... By my standards, and by the standards of Plato, Locke, Hayek, and King, the Taliban's rules are pseudolaws ... S.
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Ex-CNN host Don Lemon on his new memoir out this week: ‘My search for God ...

New York Post 08 Sep 2024
He was ‘lost’ in life, work. Don Lemon. Familiar face. Familiar name. Familiar mouth that talked on CNN, had best-selling books and is now on a podcast ... At 6.30. The place ... To quote the immortal Plato, “Not good to get into a pissing match with any skunk.”.
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Here’s a look at housing that opened this year in St. Paul — and what’s ...

Pioneer Press 08 Sep 2024
Other housing developments that have come online this year include the 178-unit, affordable Soul Apartments at Robert Street and Plato Boulevard, as well as the market-rate Esox House and the ...
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‘I thought of the church as a friend and it slapped me in the face’: historian Diarmaid MacCulloch on the Church of England’s hypocrisy

The Observer 08 Sep 2024
He intends the book, which goes back to Christianity’s roots in Greek and Judean culture and comes up to the present day (“from Plato to Nato”) as the ultimate riposte to those “self-styled ...
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Democracy under siege? Society’s eternal vigilance is key – a rejoinder

Sierra Leone Telegraph 07 Sep 2024
Have we perhaps idealised democracy too readily as the perfect form of government? In doing so, have we ignored Plato’s warnings about democracy’s inherent flaws and its potential dangers to order, peace and stability? ... The Spell of Plato (London.
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Can travel transform your life? This author says yes

Waurika News Journal 07 Sep 2024
He has published two novels, “Strange Victims” and “Ramifications,” but coming out Aug ... Yes, absolutely ... “If, as Plato believed, knowing is remembering, then I’ve been remembering Cuba forever…” you write in a memorable essay on visiting Havana ... ....
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Is Corporate Music Making Us More Compliant?

The Daily Sceptic 07 Sep 2024
Back at the beginning of political philosophy, Plato thought certain modes were a threat to the polis.

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