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  1. Jul 25, 2023 · As the film depicts, Oppenheimer really did humiliate Strauss in front of Congress when the two men disagreed about exporting radioisotopes, a scene that is taken largely verbatim from the book.

  2. J\t the time Strauss published Natural Right and History (1953) the state of the question of natural right was a mixture of oblivion and. fitful restoration. Natural right had disappeared from the center of discussion in political philosophy for well over a century.

  3. Mar 7, 2024 · Oppenheimer could have been eased out. The movie’s Strauss knows that Oppenheimer’s pride and arrogance mean he will challenge the lifting of his security clearance, bringing about his own downfall. Essentially, Oppenheimer was living on borrowed time in the belly of the national security state.

  4. 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.

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  5. Strauss’s concern to restore political philosophy and overcome historicism led him to reread the history of political philosophy. He is known for his many innovative studies of individual philosophers, but he also extracted from that rereading an overarching narrative of the history of political philosophy.

  6. 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.

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  8. Feb 27, 2009 · In this paper I consider Strauss's case for philosophy as a “way of life.” Strauss's case rests, I believe, on a view of philosophy first as a quest—an erotic aspiration—for knowledge of the whole and second as committed to a skeptical view of our ability ever to attain to such knowledge.