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Allan Bloom

Allan Bloom Quotes

Total quotes: 2

Allan Bloom

Birthname

Birthday: September 14, 1930

Birthplace: Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Death: October 7, 1992

Educated At: University Of Chicago

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Political Scientist, Philosopher, University Of Chicago, Journalist

Total quotes: 2

“I know that men are likely to bring what are only their prejudices to the judgment of alien peoples. Avoiding that is one of the main purposes of education. But trying to prevent it by removing the authority of men's reason is to render ineffective the instrument that can correct their prejudices. True openness is the accompaniment of the desire to know, hence of the awareness of ignorance. To deny the possibility of knowing good and bad is to suppress true openness.”

— Allan Bloom, Closing of the American Mind

Tagged: Choice, Openness, Prejudice

“After all, parents can shop around for a psychologist just as some Catholics used to shop for a confessor.”

— Allan Bloom, Closing of the American Mind

Tagged: Psychologists, Secularization, Secularized Theology, Secular Theology

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