In the United States, practically speaking, the Bible was the only common culture, one that united simple and sophisticated, rich and poor, young and old, and—as the very model for a vision of the order of the whole of things, as well as the key to the rest of Western art, the greatest works of which were in one way or another responsive to the Bible.
- Allan Bloom
- Allan Bloom
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In the United States, practically speaking, the Bible was the only common culture, one that united simple and sophisticated, rich and poor, young and old, and—as the very model for a vision of the order of the whole of things, as well as the key to the rest…
With its gradual and inevitable disappearance, the very idea of such a total book and the possibility and necessity of world-explanation is disappearing. And fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise—as priests, prophets or philosophers are wise. Specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. Contrary to what is commonly thought, without the book even the idea of the order of the whole is lost.
- Allan Bloom
- Allan Bloom
Along with the constant newness of everything and the ceaseless moving from place to place, first radio, then television, have assaulted and overturned the privacy of the home, the real American privacy, which permitted the development of a higher and more independent life within democratic society. Parents can no longer control the atmosphere of the home and have even lost the will to do so.
- Allan Bloom
- Allan Bloom
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Along with the constant newness of everything and the ceaseless moving from place to place, first radio, then television, have assaulted and overturned the privacy of the home, the real American privacy, which permitted the development of a higher and more…
بالإضافة للتجديد الذي يطرأ على كل شيء، والانتقال المستمر من مكان إلى آخر، فإنّ الراديو، ومن بعدِه التلفاز، قد اقتحما وقَلَبا خصوصية البيت، وهي الخصوصية الأميركية الحقيقية، التي ساعدت سابقًا بتطوير حياة مستقلة داخل المجتمعات الديمقراطية. لم يَعُد الآباء قادرين على التحكم بأجواء البيت، بل فقدوا الإرادة لفعل ذلك حتى.
Imagine such a young person walking through the Louvre or the Uffizi, and you can immediately grasp the condition of his soul. In his innocence of the stories of Biblical and Greek or Roman antiquity, Raphael, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Rembrandt and all the others can say nothing to him. All he sees are colors and forms—modern art. In short, like almost everything else in his spiritual life, the paintings and statues are abstract.
- Allan Bloom
- Allan Bloom
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Imagine such a young person walking through the Louvre or the Uffizi, and you can immediately grasp the condition of his soul. In his innocence of the stories of Biblical and Greek or Roman antiquity, Raphael, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Rembrandt and all the…
تخيّل شابًا مثله يمشي في أروقة متحف اللوفر أو قاعات الأوفيزي، عندها يمكنك أنْ تتصوّر مباشرةً حالته الروحية. إذ بسبب جَهلِه بقصص الكتاب المقدس والتراث الروماني واليوناني، فإنّ رافاييل وليوناردو ومايكل أنجيلو ورامبرانت وكلَّ الآخرين ليس لديهم شيءٌ ليقولوه له. كُلّ ما يراه هو الألوان والأشكال—فنٌ حديث. باختصار، مثلَ كُلّ شيءٍ في حياته الروحية، فإنّ اللوحات والتماثيل ليست إلا أشياء مجرّدة.
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Imagine such a young person walking through the Louvre or the Uffizi, and you can immediately grasp the condition of his soul. In his innocence of the stories of Biblical and Greek or Roman antiquity, Raphael, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Rembrandt and all the…
اللوفر Louvre هو متحف اللوفر المشهور بباريس، الأوفيزي Uffizi هو قصر بفلورنسا، إيطاليا، يضاهي اللوفر بالجمال وقيمة الأعمال المعروضة بيه.
One of the most flattering things that ever happened to me as a teacher occurred when I received a postcard from a very good student on his first visit to Italy, who wrote, “You are not a professor of political philosophy but a travel agent.” Nothing could have better expressed my intention as an educator.
- Allan Bloom
- Allan Bloom
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One of the most flattering things that ever happened to me as a teacher occurred when I received a postcard from a very good student on his first visit to Italy, who wrote, “You are not a professor of political philosophy but a travel agent.” Nothing could…
واحدٌ من أفضلِ الإطراءات التي حصلتُ عليها بصفتي معلِّمًا كان عندما استلمت بطاقةً بريدية من طالبٍ جيدٍ جدًا خلال زيارته الأولى لإيطاليا، إذ كَتَب، "أنتَ لستَ بروفيسورًا للفلسفة السياسية بل مُرشدًا سياحيًا." لا شيءَ يعبُّر بشكلٍ أفضل عن نيّتي بصفتي مُربّيًا مثلُ هذه الرسالة.
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واحدٌ من أفضلِ الإطراءات التي حصلتُ عليها بصفتي معلِّمًا كان عندما استلمت بطاقةً بريدية من طالبٍ جيدٍ جدًا خلال زيارته الأولى لإيطاليا، إذ كَتَب، "أنتَ لستَ بروفيسورًا للفلسفة السياسية بل مُرشدًا سياحيًا." لا شيءَ يعبُّر بشكلٍ أفضل عن نيّتي بصفتي مُربّيًا…
اللي جان يقصده آلان بلوم هو أنّه عرّف الطالب على المعنى والأهمية التاريخية والروحية للأشياء اللي يشوفها سواءًا كانت لوحات، قصور تاريخية، تماثيل، أو آثار... وهذا هو هدفه من التعليم، جَعل الطالب يُدرِك ارتباطه بالماضي والتاريخ، وإعطاء سياق لوجوده الفردي.
Nietzsche, and all those serious persons who in one way or another accepted his insight, held that inequality among men is proved by the fact that there is no common experience accessible in principle to all. Such distinctions as authentic-inauthentic, profound-superficial, creator-created replace true and false. The individual value of one man becomes the polestar for many others whose own experience provides them with no guidance. The rarest of men is the creator, and all other men need and follow him.
- Allan Bloom
- Allan Bloom