Leo Strauss
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Reductio ad Trotterum
Strauss had Donne Trotter’s number. Strauss was the University of Chicago professor who coined the term . As he wrote in his 1953 book Natural Right and History, “we must avoid the fallacy that in the last decades has frequently been used as a substitute for from NBC Chicago Read more »
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Philosophical Sectarianism: Or Nobody Knows Everything (and Everybody Confuses What They Know with Everything)
So H.T., in the Ivan the K thread below, says that the writings of Leo Strauss are “utterly trivial.” And he so certain he’s right that he says that the burden is on others to prove him wrong. But “we Straussians” (even we lapsed Straussians) shouldn’t be from Postmodern Conservative Read more »
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Margaret Thatcher, RIP
Leo Strauss received the news that Winston Churchill had died in January 1965, he made the following spontaneous remarks in his classroom at the University of Chicago on the lessons of Churchill’s life—lessons that apply just as well to Margaret Thatcher. from Power Line Read more »
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The Victory of the “Noble Lie”
“gentlemen” who are not too bright but manipulable and enjoy credibility. Political science professor Shadia Drury, in her Leo Strauss and the American Right (1999), contends that Strauss believed that “perpetual deception of the citizens by those in power from Dissident Voice Read more »
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Changelog 2/27/13 – 3 edited posts, including one on Leo Strauss, another on Lincoln
fix things one at a time. Still, I do want to get some posts cleaned up out of order because they’re rather important. Leo Strauss, “Memorial Remarks for Jason Aronson” – after the primary source, I wrote a rambling commentary about humanity and philosophy. from Rethink Read more »
