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Birth Name:

Allan David Bloom

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Birth Date:

Sun, Sep 14, 1930

Time of Birth:

11:25 AM

Place of Birth:

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Age:

94

Zodiac Sign:

Virgo

Astrology Data:

Sun

21°

Vir

9'

Moon

6°

Gem

46'

Asc

1°

Sag

57'

MC

17°

Vir

1'

About Allan Bloom

Allan David Bloom (September 14, 1930 – October 7, 1992) was an American philosopher, classicist, and academician. He studied under David Grene, Leo Strauss, Richard McKeon, and Alexandre Kojève. He subsequently taught at Cornell University, the University of Toronto, Tel Aviv University, Yale University, École Normale Supérieure of Paris, and the University of Chicago. Bloom championed the idea of Great Books education and became famous for his criticism of contemporary American higher education, with his views being expressed in his bestselling 1987 book, The Closing of the American Mind. Characterized as a conservative in the popular media, Bloom denied that he was a conservative, and asserted that what he sought to defend was the "theoretical life". Saul Bellow wrote Ravelstein, a roman à clef based on Bloom, his friend and colleague at the University of Chicago.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Keith Botsford, Obituary: Professor Allan Bloom, The Independent, October 12, 1992

• DePauw University News "Closing of the American Mind Author Allan Bloom Calls on DePauw Students to Seize "Charmed Years". Ubben Lecture Series: September 11, 1987, Greencastle, Indiana. (Accessed May 16, 2007).

• A review of Political Philosophy & the Human Soul: Essays in Memory of Allan Bloom by Michael Palmer and Thomas L. Pangle, in Conference Journal.

• Bloom's Lectures on Socrates, Aristotle, Machiavelli and Nietzsche at Boston University (1983)

• Allan Bloom in philosophical discussion

Birth Chart and Planetary Positions of Allan Bloom

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Allan Bloom: Sun 21 Virgo, Moon 6 Gemini, Mercury 4 Libra, Venus 7 Scorpio, Mars 10 Cancer, Jupiter 16 Cancer, Saturn 5 Capricorn, Uranus 14 Aries, Neptune 3 Virgo, Pluto 20 Cancer, Asc 1 Sagittarius, Mc 17 Virgo, Moon Trine Mercury, Moon Quincunx Saturn, Mercury Square Saturn, Moon Opposition Ascendant, Mercury Sextile Ascendant, Moon Square Neptune, Sun Semi Square Venus, Sun Sextile Pluto, Sun Conjunct Midheaven, Moon Quincunx Venus, Moon Semi Square Pluto, Mercury Semi Sextile Neptune, Venus Trine Mars, Venus Sextile Saturn, Venus Sextile Neptune, Mars Conjunct Jupiter, Mars Square Uranus, Jupiter Square Uranus, Jupiter Semi Square Neptune, Jupiter Conjunct Pluto, Jupiter Sesquiquadrate Ascendant, Jupiter Sextile Midheaven, Saturn Trine Neptune, Uranus Sesquiquadrate Ascendant, Uranus Quincunx Midheaven, Neptune Semi Square Pluto, Neptune Square Ascendant, Pluto Sextile Midheaven

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