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On Strauss

viam sapientiae monstrabo tibi

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Richard L. Johnson
Nov 15, 2021
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But what is the core of the political? Men killing men on the largest scale in broad daylight and with the greatest serenity. - Leo Strauss

Leo Strauss was a philosophical supremacist who also understood the value of philosophy in practice by way of the political.

There are Straussians, but Straussianism is not a legitimate ideology. One can learn from th…

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