Texas A&M deems Plato unnecessary for approved thought

Texas A&M has decided that Plato is not to be taught, a determination that suggests the problem is not ancient philosophy but what happens when people read it.

As Daily Nous reports, the university has instructed a professor not to teach Plato's work in a "Contemporary Moral Problems" course, an act that is both historically incoherent and politically revealing. — Read the rest

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