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Have you read it? If so, why? Do you agree with his thesis that the crisis of the University is really a crisis in philosophy?That is hardly studying philosophy.
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.
Allan Bloom
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.
Allan Bloom
The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.
Allan Bloom
The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
Allan Bloom
The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers.
Allan Bloom
The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.
Allan Bloom
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.
Allan Bloom
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.
Allan Bloom
The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.
Allan Bloom
The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
Allan Bloom
The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers.
Allan Bloom
The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.
Allan Bloom
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