The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside.
Źródło: The closing of the American mind http://books.google.pl/books?id=cfr2ePZfFC4C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false, Simon and Schuster, 1988, s. 249.
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“Western Civ,” p. 20.
Giants and Dwarfs (1990)
Kontekst: Only the search back to the origins of one’s ideas in order to see the real arguments for them, before people became so certain of them that they ceased thinking about them at all, can liberate us. Our study of history has taught us to laugh at the follies of the whole past, the monarchies, oligarchies, theocracies, and aristocracies with the fanaticism for empire or salvation, once taken so seriously. But we have very few tools for seeing ourselves in the same way, as others will see us. Each age always conspires to make its own way of thinking appear to be the only possible or just way, and our age has the least resistance to the triumph of its own way. There is less real presence of respectable alternatives and less knowledge of the titanic intellectual figures who founded our way.
“Western Civ,” p. 19.
Giants and Dwarfs (1990)
Kontekst: I am now even more persuaded of the urgent need to study why Socrates was accused. The dislike of philosophy is perennial, and the seeds of the condemnation of Socrates are present at all times, not in the bosoms of pleasure-seekers, who don’t give a damn, but in those of high-minded and idealistic persons who do not want to submit their aspirations to examination.
“Commerce and Culture,” p. 280.
Giants and Dwarfs (1990)
“Commerce and Culture,” p. 280.
Giants and Dwarfs (1990)
“Commerce and Culture,” p. 285.
Giants and Dwarfs (1990)
“Commerce and Culture,” p. 284.
Giants and Dwarfs (1990)
“Commerce and Culture,” p. 289.
Giants and Dwarfs (1990)
Allan Bloom
książka
The Closing of the American Mind
Źródło: The Closing of the American Mind (1987), p. 67.
“Commerce and Culture,” p. 287.
Giants and Dwarfs (1990)
“Western Civ,” p. 22.
Giants and Dwarfs (1990)
“Commerce and Culture,” pp. 282-283.
Giants and Dwarfs (1990)
“Commerce and Culture,” p. 290.
Giants and Dwarfs (1990)
Źródło: Love and Friendship (1993), p. 15.
“Commerce and Culture,” p. 281.
Giants and Dwarfs (1990)
Allan Bloom
książka
The Closing of the American Mind
Źródło: The Closing of the American Mind (1987), p. 41.
Źródło: Love and Friendship (1993), p. 15.
“Commerce and Culture,” p. 285.
Giants and Dwarfs (1990)
“Commerce and Culture,” p. 284.
Giants and Dwarfs (1990)
Źródło: Love and Friendship (1993), pp. 13-14.
“Commerce and Culture,” p. 281.
Giants and Dwarfs (1990)
“Commerce and Culture,” p. 289.
Giants and Dwarfs (1990)
“Commerce and Culture,” p. 286.
Giants and Dwarfs (1990)
“Western Civ,” p. 18.
Giants and Dwarfs (1990)
Źródło: Love and Friendship (1993), p. 15.
