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Texas A&M philosophy professor ordered to remove Plato reading or be reassigned
KBTX ^ | 1/7/26 | Delaney Wolovlek, Rusty Surette, Josh Gorbutt

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 ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Education
KEYWORDS: epigraphyandlanguage; faithandphilosophy; godsgravesglyphs; plato; renaissance; symposium; texas
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To: Round Earther

“...Censorship is not a viable path to academic excellence...” Tell that to the media.

wy69


21 posted on 01/07/2026 5:04:54 PM PST by whitney69 (b)
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To: Round Earther

removing Plato????
is that college kidding???


22 posted on 01/07/2026 5:11:35 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

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


23 posted on 01/07/2026 5:14:53 PM PST by Reily
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To: Reily

YES ACTS 17 is one of my favorite passages! Paul literally quotes a Greek poem and pays homage to their thinkers!


24 posted on 01/07/2026 5:17:32 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege ( 🩰🌹)
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To: Reily
There isn't a shred of evidence in anything Plato wrote suggesting that he intended the Republic was a satire. He never wrote anything else that was a satire. And nobody at the time took it as a satire either.

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.

25 posted on 01/07/2026 5:27:21 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: Round Earther

As a philosophy major (went on to work that paid) I fully concur with Sturgeon’s Law where the subject is concerned.


26 posted on 01/07/2026 5:29:02 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
The entire express purpose of universities being founded in the West in the first was... studying the Greeks and the classics.

The first European universities were monastic schools that then became universities.

Later universities were founded to study law.

The classics followed afterward.

27 posted on 01/07/2026 5:34:03 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Agricultural and Mechanical colleges were set up by land grants to further agricultural and mechanical studies.

28 posted on 01/07/2026 5:34:19 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

Disagree!
And not discussing!


29 posted on 01/07/2026 5:35:59 PM PST by Reily
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To: Round Earther
One thing I got from the statistics about university hires in the Lost Generation is that universities are actually going to get even more bonkers in the years ahead. There is still a sizable minority of at least somewhat "normal" professors in their 60's, 70's and even 80's in university departments. As they retire, what will be left and what is replacing them are absolute nut cases.

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.

30 posted on 01/07/2026 5:36:20 PM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

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.


31 posted on 01/07/2026 5:39:43 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege ( 🩰🌹)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

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.
...”


32 posted on 01/07/2026 5:39:53 PM PST by Reily
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To: JZelle

They are so far behind, that DEI is just arriving at the same time the blue states are chucking DEI!


33 posted on 01/07/2026 5:44:14 PM PST by proxy_user
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To: Reily
I totally agree with you. Nothing precludes studying philosophy. My guess is
that Plato mentioned some truths about Africans which are not à la mode.

34 posted on 01/07/2026 5:45:29 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Round Earther
For anyone interested, a book from 1898...

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.

35 posted on 01/07/2026 5:50:27 PM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 )
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To: Round Earther

First, it’s Plato Next it’s Pythagorus.


36 posted on 01/07/2026 5:56:31 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: Round Earther

So now the Libs are against Plato??? What a bunch of morons!


37 posted on 01/07/2026 5:59:38 PM PST by Savage Beast (.When the student is ready, the teacher appears. When the people are ready, the hero appears.)
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To: Round Earther
"Professor Peterson said the discussion about love and biological sexes from Plato’s Symposium is what the administration red-flagged."

What a bunch of jackasses!

38 posted on 01/07/2026 6:01:44 PM PST by Savage Beast (.When the student is ready, the teacher appears. When the people are ready, the hero appears.)
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To: Round Earther

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.)


39 posted on 01/07/2026 6:06:58 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Savage Beast

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.


40 posted on 01/07/2026 6:11:08 PM PST by Billthedrill
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