Allan Bloom Quotes

Government Exists To Protect The Product Of Men's Labor, Their Property, And Therewith Life And Liberty. The Notion That Man Possesses Inalienable Natural Rights, That They Belong To Him As An Individual Prior, Both In Time And In Sanctity, To Any Civil Society, And That Civil Societies Exist For And Acquire Their Legitimacy From Ensuring Those Rights, Is An Invention Of Modern Philosophy. Rights, Like The Other Terms Discussed In This Chapter, Are New In Modernity, Not A Part Of The Common-sense Language Of Politics Or Of Classical Political Philosophy." From "Closing Of The American Mind" By Allan Bloom, Saul Bellow, Andrew Ferguson

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