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Strauss defends the idea of a living Constitution while Scalia famously said he prefers the dead one. Accordingly, Strauss takes originalism to be the primary alternative to his common law method of interpreting the Constitution.
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.”
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Strauss devoted much of his attention, from his early books on Spinoza and Hobbes to the end of his career, to the question of the cause, meaning, and validity of this break with classical political philosophy.
The “Straussian” approach to the history of political philosophy is articulated primarily in the writings of Leo Strauss. Strauss wrote extremely careful, detailed studies of canonical philosophical works along with essays explaining his approach.
neglected doctrine is simply true, the meaning of this claim is somewhat elu-sive. But it is clear enough that the core of Strauss's argument for that rele-vance is a claim about the relation between human experience and philoso-phy. Strauss argues that the classical understanding articulates and is
In the essay, Persecution and the Art of Writing, Strauss posits that information needs to be kept secret from the masses by "writing between the lines". However, this seems like a false premise, as most authors Strauss refers to in his work lived in times when only the social elites were literate enough to understand works of philosophy.
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Aug 5, 2014 · Esotericism is the heart of Strauss’s political philosophy. It is his key insight; it defines the hermeneutical methodology he founded and propagated; above all, it animates his experience of intellectual life.
