"Positivism and ordinary language analysis … repel students who come with the humanizing questions. Professors of these schools simply would not and could not talk about anything important, and they themselves do not represent a philosophic life for the students."
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Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind (New York: 1988), p. 378.
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