Remembering what #HannahArendt told #LeoStrauss...
"The world you visualize wouldn't have a place for a jew like you."

‘Aristo-Populists’ May Prove to Be MAGA’s Undoing Populism draws its strength from a stark dichotomy between the people and the powerful. The people are the embodiments of all and every virtue, the elites of all and every vice. The most important qua...

🤣 The author somehow manages to connect #JDVance, a moron yalie like GW Bush, to Straussian 'philosophy', to Marxism 🤣. Some details about the scum who'd lord over us and their ejumakashunal background at a socal cult 'college' that worships #LeoStrauss.

#Aristocrats #Populists #MAGA

“Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.”

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✒️ #LeoStrauss, German-Jewish-American political philosopher, was #BOTD 20 September 1899. #Politics #Philosophy

Leo Strauss read between the lines 🧠📘. For him, great political philosophy was coded, cautious, and eternal. He revived Plato, questioned modernity, and created disciples and critics. 🌪️📖 #LeoStrauss #Straussianism

“No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the #evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy and hatred, and hence there cannot be a #society which does not have to employ coercive restraint.” - #LeoStrauss, “The City and Man”

“One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.”
— Leo Strauss

#Bluesky #LeoStrauss #Philosophy #PoliticalTheory #Wisdom #CriticalThinking #DeepThoughts #TruthSeeking #KnowBeforeYouArgue #IdeasMatter

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Here's one Bloom influenced conservative writing in 2023 that " today it is the American right that most fully embodies the attitudes that so alarmed Mr. Bloom."

www.nytimes.com/2023/11/06/opinion/trump...

In part, the horror at […]

"Philipp von Wussow has given us an excellent and engaging study of #LeoStrauss' oeuvre in his compact and accessible LEO STRAUSS AND THE THEOPOLITICS OF CULTURE." — PHENOMENOLOGICAL REVIEWS

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Screenshot of comment by Hannes Kerber about Gadamer-Heidegger correspondence

Sometimes it takes more than a century for the layers of esotericism to be revealed. #LeoStrauss #Gadamer #Heidegger #Hermeneutics

Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse It is surely nobler to be a victim of the most noble dream than to profit from a sordid reality and to wallow in it. — Leo Strauss

« It is surely nobler to be a victim of the most noble dream than to profit from a sordid reality and to wallow in it. »

― Leo Strauss

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#quotes #LeoStrauss #dreams

The soul of Strauss | The New Criterion On Leo Strauss & the crisis of modern liberalism.

Hannes Kerber and Svetozar Y. Minkov's LEO STRAUSS ON PLATO'S EUTHYPHRO got a shoutout from the New Crierion! newcriterion.com/article/the-... #Plato #LeoStrauss

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