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Allan Bloom discusses Plato's Apology of Socrates
A series of 9 segments in which Bloom draws out the fundamental "Problem of Socrates" or the problem that is faced by Socrates: it is an image of the permanent problem of philosophy.
Allan Bloom's discorsi on Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics
5 segments - Bloom grasped the spirit of Aristotle's presentation of the fullest moral life, and allows us a glimpse of it here. Who could imagine that we learn such shocking things from Aristotle - that dry, serious, and moderate philosopher, and promoter of the noble life? These are certainly things your father would never tell you.
[This audio was recovered with the help of Father Ernest Fortin, who deserves posthumous thanks for the effort.]
Allan Bloom Interviewed: Nietzsche, Values, & the University
a 25 minute interview in 3 parts.
As always Bloom defends the freedom and higher cultivation of the mind against the smug and resentful forces of philisitinism.
Allan Bloom's tour de force: Nietzsche & the Last Man
This lecture, divided into 8 segments, is Bloom's attempt to open our eyes and ears to the authentic Nietzsche.
Nietzsche's allusiveness is complicated by the fact that our egalitarian prejudices are flattered by certain aspects of Nietzsche, distorted and utilized by the Left. Nietzsche is a radical anti-egalitarian, & an anti-feminist in the strongest sense. Furthermore, He advocates the necessity for slavery and oppression: these are necessary to the doctrine of the Will to Power. Our soft-left intellectuals like to forget all that, or explain it away as neurosis - fondling an effete & emasculated Nietzsche of their own making. Bloom shows how we are predisposed to accept such sham interpretations of Nietzsche, which are designed to flatter our worst instincts.
There is a wealth of other profound reflections in this lecture group. The interested viewer is encouraged to prepare for this lecture by reading carefully Zarathustra's speech on the Last Man.
Leo Strauss' destructive Critique of Heidegger
The attentive listener will detect that ultimately this first lecture is a destructive critique of radical historicism, the deepest prejudice of the most powerful recent thinker of the democratic age, Martin Heidegger. This is the appropriate starting point for a lecture course on Plato's teaching regarding mathesis, or "learning".
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