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.
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The entire express purpose of universities being founded in the West in the first was not job training or political activism.
It was studying the Greeks and the classics. 😒
in the first place*
Can’t have the peasantry reading Plato.
So many of the kids here go to and have gone to A$M
I am not impressed with it. One got an engineering degree there. He’s fine
The rest…?
Plato is very dangerous—especially if the peons start peaking outside the walls of the cave.
Lol.
Red states have been really disappointing lately.
That being said, censoring the reading of Plato is ridiculous.
“Plato was an elitist scumbag.”
He had quite an influence on the civilization you are living in.
>>censoring the reading of Plato is ridiculous.
The professor was only using psssage of Plato to advocate homosexuality and transgender nonsense; against the policies of the university.
Philosophy without Plato is like a morning without orange juice.
All Western Philosophy is said to be nothing but footnotes to Plato.
That explains all the homos.
Bible Philosophy trumps Greek Philosophy. Texas A&M should replace Plato with Solomon’s writings
Yes, as Alfred North Whitehead remarked, (paraphrased for brevity), “All of Western philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato.”.
Yes.
From Christian Science Monitor article
At the feet of Socrates
By Virgil Poling
Aug. 31, 1988.
“Near the entrance, in a secluded grove of olive trees, were two chairs carved from Pentelic marble. They were placed at the foot of a small hill, with a perfectly flat grassy area in front of them.
Tradition had it that this was where Socrates held many of his outdoor dialogues and one of the chairs was where Socrates sat. I imagined that the other chair had been used by one of his friends, perhaps Crito or Hippocrates, or even a visiting Sophist, perhaps Protagoras, while young students, most often his friends from the wrestling school, sat on the grass at the feet of the great teacher listening to his discourses and contributing their own ideas from time to time, or answering his questions as he gradually illustrated his method of arriving at the truth of the subject being discussed.”
The New Testament was written in Greek to complement the questions already being asked and fill in the gaps. St. Paul spent most of his time there. And the conclusion of the Bible was written by St. John in Greece.
I made a reference in conversation to something from Plato to the middle aged woman I used to work with, who was an ex-nun,
and she recognized it. “Catholics study the Greek philosophers as a foundation before studying Bible commentaries.”
Even more than Spike Lee and Malcolm X?
If you’re saying that be cause of his work “The Republic”. I’ve read commentary that suggests that its not a prescription for an ideal society but the opposite! He was writing it as a warning - as satire. I think that makes sense when you consider that his great mentor Socrates was anything but an elitist. If you remember Socrates was put to death by the Athenian elites.
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