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Beschreibung | Allan David Bloom (14. September 1930 - 7. Oktober 1992) war ein amerikanischer Philosoph, Klassizist und Akademiker. Er studierte bei David Grene, Leo Strauss, Richard McKeon und Alexandre Kojève. Anschließend lehrte er an der Cornell University, der University of Toronto, der Tel Aviv University, der Yale University, der École normale supérieure und der University of Chicago. |
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.
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.