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Allan Bloom
American Philosopher
Born: Sep 14, 1930
Died: Oct 7, 1992
About Because Belief Easy Great Values
Related authors: Deepak Chopra George Herbert Mead John Dewey Judith Butler Lysander Spooner Robert M. Pirsig Robert Nozick William James
Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion. Allan Bloom
Education Learning Try Whatever Our Completion Must Would Find Reconstruct Seek Students Enable Yearn Times Them Might
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part. Allan Bloom
Beautiful Great Living Fragments Once Having Structures Civilizations Part Like Surface Shepherds Were Up Site Where Which Pop Ignorant Notion Play
Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music. Allan Bloom
Music Generation Nothing This Generation Addiction About More Singular Than
As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. Allan Bloom
Recognized Soon Come Dead Tradition
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative. Allan Bloom
Truth Truth Is Every Relative Says Entering One Thing Absolutely Student He Almost Certain Professor Believes Thing University
Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy? Allan Bloom
Become Every Easy Only Student Lifetime He Knew Knows How Labor Did After Ignorant Now Socrates
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
Political Seriously Cynical Heritage Our Critical About Inspired Students Arrive Lacking Wherewithal Either Ignorant Now University
Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later. Allan Bloom
Entertainment Wait Parents Everything Later Tell Would Entertainment Industry Silver Gives Had Until Industry Understand Rock Always Up Authority Children Grew Public Them Used Platter
There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech. Allan Bloom
Teacher Soul Practice Believe Magic Through Does Real Existence Who Acts Speech
The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers. Allan Bloom
Truth Man Community Those Seek Potential Real Who
Shakespeare did not consider himself the legislator of mankind. He faithfully records man's problems and does not evidently propose to solve them. Allan Bloom
Man Problems Consider Evidently Solve Shakespeare Records Propose He Himself Faithfully Does Did Legislator Them Mankind
Shakespeare's naturalness is attested to by the strange fact that he is the only classical author who remains popular. The critical termites are massed and eating away at the foundations, trying to topple him. Whether they will succeed will be a test of his robustness. Allan Bloom
Strange Will Topple Critical Eating Classical Shakespeare Only Fact Remains He Him Test His Author Trying Whether Succeed Who Popular Away Foundations

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