Posted on 01/07/2026 4:33:43 PM PST by Round Earther
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - Another Texas A&M professor is facing scrutiny from university administration over course curriculum, being instructed to remove readings from his syllabus.
Professor Martin Peterson confirmed to KBTX’s Rusty Surette that he was instructed by the philosophy department to remove readings in his “Contemporary Moral Issues” course related to race and gender - including readings by the Greek philosopher Plato - or be reassigned.
“I speak for myself, not the university, when I say in my opinion, Texas A&M is not on the right track. Censorship is not a viable path to academic excellence,” said Peterson.
(Excerpt) Read more at kbtx.com ...
“...Censorship is not a viable path to academic excellence...” Tell that to the media.
wy69
removing Plato????
is that college kidding???
Paul was a thoroughly Hellenized Jew. Raised & educated in Tarsus. Its Jewish community as considered to be the most Hellenized of the diaspora. You can find in one of Paul’s statements that show familiarity with Greek writers/philosophers - poet Aratus. See Acts 17:28
YES ACTS 17 is one of my favorite passages! Paul literally quotes a Greek poem and pays homage to their thinkers!
Revisionists nowadays trying to spin what Plato wrote into meaning the opposite is typical of modern leftist academics. To them, "A" is never "A". Speaking of which....
I think that makes sense when you consider that his great mentor Socrates was anything but an elitist.
The entire Republic is written by Plato as a Dialogue by Socrates. They are indistinguishable on that point. In any case, as to the assumption that the student must agree with the teacher, Aristotle (Mr. "A" is "A" himself) was taught by Plato but disagreed with him fundamentally on a great many core issues.
And it's not just the Republic. Plato's theory of Forms is sort of ground-zero for much of the pollutant garbage of western philosophy. It's Aristotle who is the true, irreplaceable giant of grounded western philosophy.
As a philosophy major (went on to work that paid) I fully concur with Sturgeon’s Law where the subject is concerned.
The first European universities were monastic schools that then became universities.
Later universities were founded to study law.
The classics followed afterward.
Disagree!
And not discussing!
It will become even more apparent than it is now that sending your child to such universities is ridiculous, as it will in no way make them competent for the real world and the workplace. So the universities will be desperate to retain political power to maintain funding streams from the government, and to use the government to coerce people into continuing sending students to be brainwashed in these insance asylums.
yes they are “trade schools” not university in the most original; foundational sense when they were first created Europe.
the ivy league (not counting Cornell) were all classics schools mixed with seminaries. you learned your “trade” via apprenticeship NOT at university! college was for Greek, Latin, with some Hebrew thrown in - regardless of what profession you had after.
The Morill Act of 1862
But not “exclude scientific and classical studies”
‘...
The act stipulated these funds be used for the
endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.
...”
They are so far behind, that DEI is just arriving at the same time the blue states are chucking DEI!
The Republic of Plato: With Studies for Teachers
A link to the free ebook. There's a two page preface. Read that if nothing else.
My, how times have changed.
First, it’s Plato Next it’s Pythagorus.
So now the Libs are against Plato??? What a bunch of morons!
What a bunch of jackasses!
I can understand this if it was about our formerly resepected (poison) Ivy League joke kolleges, but from the school of the Aggies? Come on, Aggies, I know that you’ll have to wear bio defensive clothing, but get yourselves over to the lib arts buildings and exterminate, exterminate, exterminate. (Yup, go Dalek on the turds.)
Yup. I’d love to hear Plato’s reaction to the notion that the most disagreeable ideas in his work were about love and biological sexes. He’d think these people were crazy. He’d be right.
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