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Allan Bloom

“The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...His whole life is absorbed in avoiding death, which is inevitable, and therefore he might be thought to be the most irrational of men, if rationality has anything to do with understanding ends or comprehending the human situation as such. He gives way without reserve to his most powerful passion and the wishes it engenders.”

Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind
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The Closing of the American Mind The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom
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