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“A serious life means being fully aware of the alternatives, thinking about them with all the intensity one brings to bear on life-and-death questions, in full recognition that every choice is a great risk with necessary consequences that are hard to bear.”

Book:Closing of the American Mind

Work

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

“Never did I think that the university was properly ministerial to the society around it. Rather I thought and think that society is ministerial to the university, and I bless a society that tolerates and supports an eternal childhood for some, a childhood whose playfulness can in turn be a blessing to society.”

Thinking Turns Support Childhood Blessing Eternal University Bless Tolerate Scholarship Playfulness

Book:Closing of the American Mind

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden.”

Issues University Conventions Hunting Forbidden License Scholarship Licenses

Author:Allan Bloom

“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.”

Believe Certain One Thing Students Truth Is University Professors Relative Skepticism Entering

Book:Closing of the American Mind

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers, that is, in principle, of all men to the extent they desire to know. But in fact this includes only a few, the true friends, as Plato was to Aristotle at the very moment they were disagreeing about the nature of the good.”