eng URI http://hdl.handle.net/10795/3509 philosophy philosophy of science history Thanks to Plato (and Hekademos, perhaps, not to mention Horace), there are 'academies' littering the Western world's educational sphere - from the Academy of Athens (founded 1926) to Athens Academy (a college preparatory school in Georgia, USA). And 'academic' has entered global Englishes as both noun and adjective. My title plays on one of the more debased versions of the English adjective 'academic', meaning (in Webster's definition) 'Theoretical, speculative, having no practical or useful significance'. Scholars have taken polarised views of Plato's original Academy: on the one hand (μέν), it was devoted to - and intended to generate nothing more or less than - pure θεωρία (hence the superscription above the entrance - allegedly, as alleged 10 centuries later anyhow: http://plato-dialogues.org/faq/faq009.htm); on the other hand (δέ) it was the Rand Corporation of Classical Greece (Trevor Saunders, in a Festschrift for quite another Webster). Go, figure - or at any rate Discuss! (Paul Cartledge, University of Cambridge) LOMv1.0 creator LOMv1.0 Project Final Beneficiary LOMv1.0 Project Executing Organisation 2012-12-12 Digital Library of the Operational Programme "Education and Lifelong Learning" abstract types Text Plato's Academy Athens Classical Greece Dialogues RAND corporation Democracy Political thought Socratics 132814 application/pdf http://repository.edulll.gr/edulll/bitstream/10795/3509/3/3509_01_CartledgeP.pdf 50337 application/pdf http://repository.edulll.gr/edulll/bitstream/10795/3509/4/3509_02_CartledgeHO.pdf Wensday December 12th 2012 Morning Session. Chair: Paul Kalligas (Athens) URI http://hdl.handle.net/10795/3509 LOMv1.0creator 2016-05-31T13:06:57Z LOMv1.0validator 2016-05-31T13:06:57Z LOMv1.0 gre no no Copyright EYD-EPEDBM (Operational Programme "Education and Lifelong Learning")