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"Strauss taught his students that Philosophy has not begun yet."—Stanley Rosen


I urge every citizen of the United States to read—critically (see Plato's "Critias" and Strauss" "Spinoza's Critique of Religion: which I believe may be a philosophy of the past and future), not with hostility, the works of Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, Alaxander Kojeve (note the relationship to the greatest conquerer of the ancient world, and, perhaps, not accidentally, a student of Aristotle: But we do not traditionally think of Aristotle as prone to such anti-conservative political projects, but we may have to reconsider that, unless the relationship of Alexander's political immoderation was as accidental as the political immoderation of Alcibiades was to Socrates (which may not have been accidental, after all—for Socrates was a teacher of Plato and, more importantly in this connection Xenophon (in my view the political man of antiquity par exellance—though I believe he may have cut down Thucydides[in mid sentence: since Thuycidedes' narrative ends with a "fragmentary sentence. . . then is taken up by the heroic Xenophon?), Plato a teacher of Aristotle, the latter a teacher of Alexander: Who is the modern counterpart to socrates?—these works are more than academic, they are the most potent productions of "philosophical-Theological politics today—and Eric Voegelin, Carl Schmidt, Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt are equally important: So give them a read, and you will possibly begin to think of philosophy as more world wise and less muddle-headed, after all!


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