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“All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson from the Bible and Homer through Joyce and Proust.”

Book:Closing of the American Mind

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Closing of the American Mind

A seminal work analyzing the impact of modern intellectual movements on American society and culture. more

Author

Allan Bloom

Allan Bloom was an influential American philosopher, born on September 14, 1930, and died on October 7, 1992. He is one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century, known for his profound understanding and unique insights into Western philosophy. more

“There is a perennial and unobtrusive view that morality consists in such things as telling the truth, paying one's debts, respecting one's parents and doing no voluntary harm to anyone. Those are all things easy to say and hard to do; they do not attract much attention, and win little honor in the world.”

World Littles Hard Winning Easy Parent Views Attention Honor Morality All Things Debt Harm Telling The Truth

Author:Allan Bloom

“Openness, as currently conceived, is a way of making surrender to whatever is most powerful, or worship of vulgar success, look principled.”

Way Looks Powerful Worship Surrender Most Powerful Openness Vulgar Principled

Book:Closing of the American Mind

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than any of them have proved to be, not only because he was smarter but because he took Aristotle more seriously.”

Knows Forget Philosopher Greek Professors Smarter Interpreter

Author:Allan Bloom

“The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.”

Economic Philosopher Psychological Theoretical