Allan Bloom
Philosopher and classicist (1930 to 1992) whose The Closing of the American Mind (1987) argued that relativism and the decline of great books had impoverished American students and higher education.
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Their wordsThere 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.
↗The Closing of the American Mind (Simon and Schuster, 1987)archive.org All 6 from this book
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Their wordsOpenness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason.
↗The Closing of the American Mind (Simon and Schuster, 1987)archive.org All 6 from this book
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Their wordsEducation is the movement from darkness to light.
↗The Closing of the American Mind (Simon and Schuster, 1987)archive.org All 6 from this book
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Their wordsNothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
↗The Closing of the American Mind (Simon and Schuster, 1987)archive.org All 6 from this book
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Their wordsThe relativity of truth is not a theoretical insight but a moral postulate, the condition of a free society, or so they see it.
↗The Closing of the American Mind (Simon and Schuster, 1987)archive.org All 6 from this book
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Their wordsMen may live more truly and fully in reading Plato and Shakespeare than at any other time, because then they are participating in essential being and are forgetting their accidental lives.
↗The Closing of the American Mind (Simon and Schuster, 1987)archive.org All 6 from this book