Preacher\u27s Magazine Volume 48 Number 01

Ring in the New! Editorial No Substitute for Teamwork, Editorial I Can Do Anything God Tells Me to Do, T. W. Willingham Overtones of the Ministry, I. Optimism, Raymond C. Kratzer The Pastor as Husband and Father, Mrs. E. B. Hartley This I Remember — Phineas F. Bresee, Joseph Gray Props and Pillars, Mary Ann Hawkes The Transcendent Call, Allen Bowman Communication Is the Key, Practical Points Priority for Today, Arlene Wright Sacrifice Self and Save Souls, Jane Kristoffersen The Everlasting Image of a Minister, R. J. Ferrioli A Plea for Definition, R. G. Fitz, Sr. Journeying with Jesus Through John, Ralph Earle DEPARTMENTS The Preacher’s Wife In the Study Timely Outlines Bulletin Barrel Here and There Among Books Preachers’ Exchangehttps://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_pm/1546/thumbnail.jp

2010 Piscataqua Region Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan (CCMP)

In the fall of 2010, the Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership (PREP) completed an 18-month effort to understand current and future environmental issues affecting the Region’s estuaries, to establish realistic goals and objectives for the next 10 years, and to create effective action plans to systematically achieve the shared environmental goals of a broad base of Regional stakeholders. With input from more than 150 individuals, representing 82 organizations, PREP compiled the 2010 Piscataqua Region Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan (CCMP) that lays the foundation for work over the next decade to protect and restore the Region’s estuaries and associated watershed

Virtue and democracy in Plato's late dialogues

Both Plato's theory of virtue and his attitude towards democracy -the two being correspondent- change significantly as we move from the middle to the late dialogues. The Republic is a substantially authoritarian work which expresses an unmitigated rejection of democracy. Its authoritarianism is deeply rooted in the fact that its ethical and political assertions are justified on a metaphysical basis. Plato suggests that virtue and metaphysical knowledge legitimize political power, but both virtue and knowledge are so defined as to be attainable only by a tiny minority. In the Politicus Plato reasserts the superiority of a complete virtue grounded on philosophical knowledge, but seriously questions the attainability of this ideal. In the closing part of this dialogue Plato demonstrates an interest in history and in this respect the Politicus anticipates the Laws, where political theory is not justified by metaphysics, but is informed by historical experience. More specifically, Plato attempts to reproduce on a theoretical level a legislation similar to the actual historical legislation of Solon and he underlines the need for a moderate state involving elements from different constitutions. Because Plato adopts a historical perspective in the Laws, his earlier authoritarianism is severely curtailed (though not completely abandoned). So, despite still holding a low opinion of democracy, Plato does use some democratic elements in his Magnesian constitution and the predominant conception of moral virtue put forward in the Laws is not the highly exclusive virtue of the Republict but a virtue falling within the capacities of the ordinary citizen. In comparison to the state of the Republic the city of the Laws is for Plato only a "second best". Even so, however, the latter dialogue with its moderation, its rejection of absolutism and its surprisingly modern emphasis on the accountability of all officials constitutes a contribution of lasting interest to Western political thinking