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The crude characterization of Strauss as a “consequentialist” does not much help matters either. A more subtle discussion of Strauss's “exotericism” and his relation to Nietzsche can be found in Stanley Rosen, Hermeneutics as Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987), 107-23.
- ROBERT B. PIPPIN
Jul 18, 2014 · In the meantime Strauss reminds his readers of the real and present advantages of living in a modern liberal democracy. “We are not permitted to be flatterers of democracy,” he urges, “precisely because we are friends and allies of democracy.”
- Catherine Zuckert, Michael Zuckert
- 2014
Strauss was incapacitated during the final years of his life from the effects of multiple bouts of electroshock therapy applied to combat depression. He then suffered a paralyzing stroke . He died from an additional stroke on February 20, 1975.
Dec 1, 2010 · For Strauss, a recognition, and not a resolution, of the tensions and contradictions that define human society is the necessary starting point for philosophically reconstructing a philosophy, theology, and politics of moderation, all of which, he claims, the twentieth-century desperately needs. 5.
It explains how and why the challenge to, and the critique of, the philosophical life posed by politics and religion must be grasped as the theme of Leo Strauss’s work and why Strauss takes the philosophical refutation of faith in revelation to be a theologico-political problem.
Jun 27, 2024 · So, the fundamental problem, for Strauss, is modern civilisation’s rejection of the classical notion of reason, under the influence of historicism and positivism (see Strauss Citation 1953). It is this which leads to the undesirable features of the open society, not least the rise of nihilism.
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