Tag: Allan Bloom

I remember Allan Bloom, Part 2

| June 21, 2011 | 0 Comments
I remember Allan Bloom, Part 2

The world is a dangerous place to live not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it. ~ Albert Einstein Einstein’s aphorism above in an utterly singular manner extrapolates why professor Allan Bloom had to write his magnum opus, “The Closing of the American Mind,” […]

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I remember Allan Bloom

| June 12, 2011 | 3 Comments
I remember Allan Bloom

For Bloom, the moral vacuum created by liberalism inside the souls of Americans was filled by demagogic radicals in the ’60s similar to the Nazi Brownshirts who in the ’20s and ’30s filled the breach created in German society by the Weimar Republic. Bloom further argued that liberal values of philosophy and reason understood as […]

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