Historicism And Cultural Relativism Actually Are A

[a]ny Notion Of The Serious Life Of Leisure, As Well As Men's Taste And Capacity To Live It, Had Disappeared. Leisure Became Entertainment.

Rock Gives Children, On A Silver Platter, With All The Public Authority Of The Entertainment Industry, Everything Their Parents Always Used To Tell Them They Had To Wait For Until They Grew Up And Would Understand Later.

The Facile Economic And Psychological Debunking Of The Theoretical Life Cannot Do Away With Its Irreducible Beauties.

The Real Community Of Man, In The Midst Of All The Self-contradictory Simulacra Of Community, Is The Community Of Those Who Seek The Truth, Of The Potential Knowers, That Is, In Principle, Of All Men To The Extent They Desire To Know. But In Fact This Includes Only A Few, The True Friends, As Plato Was To Aristotle At The Very Moment They Were Disagreeing About The Nature Of The Good.

The Most Important Function Of The University In An Age Of Reason Is To Protect Reason From Itself.