As I indicated in my previous post on Leo Strauss's "Three Waves of Modernity," I am puzzled as to why Strauss chose to pass over in silence Friedrich Nietzsche's Darwinian naturalism in Human, All Too Human and the other writings from his middle period. This is crucial for how we assess Strauss's claim about the crisis of modern natural right, which is the crisis of liberal democracy.
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One of the best responses to Shadia Drury's Political Ideas of Leo Strauss is David Schaefer's "Shadia Drury's Critique of Leo Strauss," which was published in the Political Science Reviewer. As indicated in my previous posts, I hav... Read Post
I cannot understand Leo Strauss's silence about Aristotle's biology. In Natural Right and History, for example, there are many citations of Aristotle's writings, and yet there is only brief citation of his biological writing: on pag... Read Post
In reading Leo Strauss's "Three Waves of Modernity," I am reminded of my blog posts a few years ago on Strauss's religious longings, and on how those religious longings explain Strauss's attraction to Nietzsche's early and later wri... Read Post