Leo Strauss Foundation
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On the thought and legacy of Leo Strauss https://leostrauss.substack.com/
In his 1952 lectures “Progress or Return,” Strauss commented on Nietzsche's critique of modern morality as biblical morality without the biblical God (the famous George Eliot aphorism in Twilight of the Idols). In the Q&A, someone asked Strauss if Freud's approach would be…
Provocative comment in Benardete's November 11, 1991 class on Plato's Sophist: "I don't know whether I mentioned in this class but the most interesting thing about Greek philosophy from a cosmological point of view is that only the Greek philosophers ever thought that the world…
“Harvey Mansfield is a Harvard treasure, a one-man antidote to liberal complacency.” – Michael J. Sandel Which way, modern man? Taught for decades to rapt classrooms, Harvey C. Mansfield’s legendary Harvard course on political philosophy has informed and influenced generations…
Some typos in the article version of Strauss's essay on Machiavelli's Prince ("statecraft" --> "statistical data" in the book)
Do we know what he taught at CUA? This is what he was scheduled to teach at Heidelberg then
January 11, 1969: Newspapers announce that Gadamer will be a visiting professor at Catholic University of America.
So excited that a group of outstanding @BostonCollege undergrads has fallen down the Ernest Fortin rabbit hole — reading the work of this exceptional political philosopher, theologian, and reader — and now interviewing his colleagues and former students. 🧵
Glenn Ellmers (in The Soul of Politics) on Harry Jaffa's withdrawal of his Aristotle chapter from the Strauss-Cropsey History of Political Philosophy...
Take note: The @ls_foundation has tons of interesting stuff in the works—correspondences, notebooks, and course transcripts.
Course descriptions of courses Harry Jaffa planned to teach at the New School in 1949/50 (but never did?)
Allan Bloom comments on books he had recently read (Cornell Alumni News, 1970): Erwin Straus, Flaubert's Salammbo, G Himmelfarb's Victorian Minds, Strauss's Liberalism Ancient & Modern, and vol. 1 of Kojève's history of pagan philosophy
Initial list of planned contributors to Leo Strauss' festschrift. For one reason or another Walter Berns, Cox, Diamond, Goldwin, Horwitz, Hula, Jaffa, Jonas, Kennington, Löwith, and Weinstein didn't contribute while Anastaplo, Laurence Berns, Blanckenhagen, Gildin Lerner, and…
That's good though the author might be insufficiently aware of Kojève's gift for the "canularesque" (the "put-on") as seen in K's "The Christian Origin of Modern Science" translated here by David Lachterman: acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc…
Here is an interesting article on Leo Strauss and Kojeve, recently published in the Polish political theory journal Teoria Polityki, which published my piece on Aristotle's political anthropological foundations for his regime science.@ls_foundation ejournals.eu/czasopismo/teo…
Here is an interesting article on Leo Strauss and Kojeve, recently published in the Polish political theory journal Teoria Polityki, which published my piece on Aristotle's political anthropological foundations for his regime science.@ls_foundation ejournals.eu/czasopismo/teo…
They will see the light of day. In the case of Strauss on Aristotle's Metaphysics, the only notes are on the first two chapters. But the Metaphysics as a whole was important to him. And like Bruell later he regarded Metaphysics E1-3 as very important
1935 ad for Leo Strauss's "Philosophy and Law"
A list of courses Harry Jaffa took in graduate school (most of them with Leo Strauss, including on Aristotle's Physics and Metaphysics)
Irving Horowitz (Science and Society, Winter 1956) misreading a line in Strauss's Natural Right and History.
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