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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.

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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.]

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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.

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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.

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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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About In the Myth of Er Socrates taught of the soul's immortality

Anti-smoking, the last refuge of the moral instinct in America. And it's the only thing I "do".

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So much has been written and said about me (most of it malicious) that I would tire you with repeating or refuting any of it here. I like to think about Falstaff but also about Scipio, and not only as Machiavelli taught us about him. Moses and his Imitators are certainly worth reflecting on.

I have a real taste and gift for reading Aristophanes. Although I have always enjoyed Jewish comedy, the Anglican High Churchman Swift was really one of my masters. I thought of becoming a novelist many years ago, but I realized that I would have been inferior to such writers as Flaubert or Stendhal, and therefore used my resources otherwise. I am not a culture critic or vulture. I am rather a kind of interpreter of amusing philosophical hieroglyphs.

I made heroic-like efforts to try to understand the naturalness and artistry of Shakespeare's perspective, but I fear with varying success.

Above all, I have reflected on the meaning and necessity of the right kind of irony.

As for my good students, many of them have probably become wiser than I was or could have been. As for my interesting ones, they have surely surpassed me, and may even have achieved some greatness. As for those who were loyal, we both know that I shall remain ever superior to them. And finally, as for my best students, some of them have perhaps understood me; though none of whom I am aware have appreciated what I tried to accomplish - which is no reason for me to complain.

Of my friends I have said:
«Parce que c'était eux, parce que c'était moi.»

The common man views his life with grim seriousness. But I was different. With laughter and scorn at this personal individual life, I found my way to immortality. Believe it or not, I leaped into my grave with irony. And what of the real me could ever be buried?

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Indianapolis, Indiana

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France

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Writer and Translator, for pay too.

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Interests? Yes, naturally. ''Hobbies''? No.

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