“Everyday create your history” – Michael Jackson
“Everyday create your history, every path you take you’re leaving your legacy.”
Michael Jackson
Author Archive for: Jan
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Allan Bloom on Human Nature and Problems
“Human nature must not be altered in order to have a problem-free world. Man is not just a problem-solving being, as behaviorists would wish us to believe, but a problem-recognizing and -accepting being.”
Allan Bloom
Thomas Kuhn on Science and Philosophical Analysis
“It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers.”
Thomas Kuhn
Quote by Allan Bloom on Reason, Truth, and Philosophy
“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.”
Allan Bloom
Quote by Allan Bloom on the Importance of History
“We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible.”
Allan Bloom
Quote by Allan Bloom on Freedom of Mind and Alternative Thoughts
“Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.”
Allan Bloom
Thomas Kuhn on Paradigms and Scientific Criteria
“Each paradigm will be shown to satisfy more or less the criteria that it dictates for itself and to fall short of a few of those dictated by its opponent.”
Thomas Kuhn
Understanding Past Ideas – Quote by Thomas Kuhn
“Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be prepared at the start to find that natives speak a different language and map experience into different categories from those they themselves bring from home. And they must take as their object the discovery of those categories and the assimilation of the corresponding language.”
Thomas Kuhn
Rational Arguments and Attitude – Quote by Karl Popper
“No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.”
Karl Popper
Allan Bloom on Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle
“Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than any of them have proved to be, not only because he was smarter but because he took Aristotle more seriously.”
Allan Bloom