Allan Bloom

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Born

14 September 1930

Died

7 October 1992

Works

13

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Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Ireland

Active from

1955-05-23

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Allan David Bloom (September 14, 1930 – October 7, 1992) was an American philosopher, classicist, and academic. He studied under David Grene, Leo Strauss, Richard McKeon and Alexandre Kojève. He subsequently taught at Cornell University, the University of Toronto, Yale University, École Normale Supérieure of Paris, and the University of Chicago. Bloom championed the idea of 'Great Books' education and became famous for his criticism of contemporary American higher education <a href="https://www.

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

   · 2000 · cited 36,896x

2. Array programming with NumPy

   · 2020 · cited 23,441x

3. New Guidelines to Evaluate the Response to Treatment in Solid Tumors

   · 2000 · cited 13,419x

4. DETERMINATION OF SERUM PROTEINS BY MEANS OF THE BIURET REACTION

   · 1949 · cited 12,995x

5. Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty*

   · 2016 · cited 10,641x

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Quotes

• “There are two kinds of openness, the openness of indifference—promoted with the twin purposes of humbling our intellectual pride and letting us be whatever we want to be, just as long as we don’t want to be knowers—and the openness that invites us to the quest for knowledge and certitude, for which history and the various cultures provide a brilliant array of examples for examination.”
• “Students have powerful images of what a perfect body is and pursue it incessantly. But deprived of literary guidance, they no longer have any image of a perfect soul, and hence do not long to have one.”
• “There are two threats to reason, the opinion that one knows the truth about the most important things and the opinion that there is no truth about them. Both of these opinions are fatal to philosophy; the first asserts that the quest for truth is unnecessary, while the second asserts that it is impossible. The Socratic knowledge of ignorance, which I take to be the beginning point of all philosophy, defines the sensible middle ground between two extremes.”
• “Socrates’ way of life is the consequence of his recognition that we can know what it is that we do not know about the most important things and that we are by nature obliged to seek that knowledge.”
• “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.”
• “To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not.”

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