Spencer Heath Archive

Item 915

Pencilings in a notebook preserved in “Originals” envelope 912

Fall 1950?

Original -> 912

PLATO, in particular, sought to make the Academy a school of political planning from which statesmen and legislators might issue to put into practice for the guidance of mankind the lessons which philosophy had taught. No parallel anxiety is shown, no parallel endeavor made, by contemporary philosophers.

C.E.M. Joad. “Decadence” as set out in “The World’s Best” — Whit Burnett, Dial Press, New York 1950  p 356

/Not certain whether the above are Joad’s or Heath’s words. -Editor/

Needed:  Synopsis followed by Synthesis. — all viewed in perspective. All in the light of the Graeco-Christian tradition.