Platonic Heaven Author:Mary Kelly Jill Townley, the protagonist, a seventeen-year-old girl who believes her duty to be actively loyal to all. Her duties to herself include being strong, determined, and courageous to include some other person. Tom Corrigan, her childhood playmate, is another self with similar powers. They choose virtue for the sake of happiness. Together with Mar... more »isa Langan, they are Student Council and members of the Honor Society. Thoughts of Spiral Curriculum, knowledge as recollection, true understanding become quite a challenge for the Council as they attempt to promote these ideas to the student body of Highlander High School. Jill couldn?t stop worrying about Friday night?s meeting in five days. Their happiness is disrupted when Lisa Monahan, linked in harmony with Marisa and Tom, becomes involved with a college group of motorcycle riders. Spiral Curriculum, a community of inquiry, meets regularly to practice more effective ways of thinking philosophically. For them, it is repetition of right activities, and the argument is fourfold. A well-thinking human being is a good human being. A human being is good at thinking. A human being is good for thinking. Thinking well is good for a human being. The good life is such that some people cannot live it.« less