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Article: A nation that has lost its intellectual bearings. (Allan Bloom) (interview)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- May 11, 1987
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A nation that has lost its intellectual bearings
The really great original thinkers from Socrates on weresteeped in knowledge of other ways, other times and other thinkers. We have lost that scholarly tradition and our attachment to that learning. The 1960s played a very great role in this decay because during that time there was the hidden premise that somehow there was nothing to be learned from the past--that the simple instincts or sentiments of the young would do. Universities were surprisingly ready to give in to that. They lost the habit of asking--or being able to discuss--the fundamental questions, such as: "What is the good life?' Schools virtually ...
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