Re: MD MoQ platypuses

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Ian,

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> I sympathise - true story ...
>
> My teenage son is in the early stages of seeking to do a politics and
> economics degree, and has on his own initiative been doing some deep
> background. At a recent prelimiary / mock interview for course selection
he
> revealed his reading of Nietzsche and Popper. The interviewer was
impressed,
> but advised him to go back and read Plato before applying.
>
> I despair (well almost)

I don't. Nietzche and Popper (and modernists and postmodernists in general)
constitute an antithesis to Plato's thesis. If we are going to get to a
synthesis we need to revisit the thesis.

- Scott

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