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The Substance Of My Being Has Been Informed By The Books I Learned To Care For.

I Am Now Even More Persuaded Of The Urgent Need To Study Why Socrates Was Accused. The Dislike Of Philosophy Is Perennial, And The Seeds Of The Condemnation Of Socrates Are Present At All Times, Not In The Bosoms Of Pleasure-seekers, Who Don't Give A Damn, But In Those Of High-minded And Idealistic Persons Who Do Not Want To Submit Their Aspirations To Examination.

Human Nature Must Not Be Altered In Order To Have A Problem-free World. Man Is Not Just A Problem-solving Being, As Behaviorists Would Wish Us To Believe, But A Problem-recognizing And -accepting Being.

Americans ... Do Not Naturally Apply The Term "bourgeois" To Themselves, Or To Anyone Else For That Matter. They Do Like To Call Themselves Middle Class, But That Does Not Carry With It Any Determinate Spiritual Content. ... The Term "middle Class" Does Not Have Any Of The Many Opposites That Bourgeois Has, Such As Aristocrat, Saint, Hero, Or Artist - All Good.

The Old View Was That Delicacy Of Language Was Part Of The Nature, The Sacred Nature, Of Eros And That To Speak About It In Any Other Way Would Be To Misunderstand It. What Has Disappeared Is The Risk And The Hope Of Human Connectedness Embedded In Eros. Ours Is A Language That Reduces The Longing For An Other To The Need For Individual, Private Satisfaction And Safety.