... moderns, although in Nietzschean terms they are basically the same insofar as all previous philosophy had failed to understand that their philosophy was...
... The jump to Kant is prepared in the previous paragraph. That morality has a basis in reason is very much a Kantian thing, as morality in the ancient world...
Icastes ... has a basis in reason is very much a Kantian thing, as morality in the ancient world has a basis both in nature and in a god among some people. I...
... In the context of Strauss's Note, the allusion to Kant is necessary because it is Kant who decisively divides reason from "nature" to the point that it is...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "As for rationalist morality, it consists primarily in the identification of the good with the useful and pleasant and...
... It may be akin, but is it "nature"? COMMENT: Note that Strauss say's that it is "at least akin to nature which seems to imply that it is more than akin to...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "When Nietzsche speaks of nature, supplying that term again with quotation marks (apr. 197), he demands that one cease to...
Dear List Members: From the herd we go to those men who stand apart from the herd. Strauss continues: "Prior to the victory of the democratic movement to...
Dear List Members: Throughout the past few paragraphs, Strauss has been playing with the problem of "nature" and nature, in quotes and without quotes in...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "While Nietzsche's turn from the autonomous herd to the new philosophers is in perfect agreement with with his doctrine...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "From the desideration of the new philosophers Nietzsche is naturally led to passing judgement on the contemporary...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "The plebian character of the contemporary scholar or scientist is due to the fact that he has no reverence for himself...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "The philosopher, as distinguished from the scholar or scientist, is the complementary man in whom not only man but the...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: Up to now I have avoided the problem of defining morality, because, after all, like virtue, we all know exactly what...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "To recognize the crucial importance of cruelty is indispensable if 'the basic text _homo natura_, 'that eternal basic...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "At the end of the seventh chapter Nietzsche discusses 'woman and man' (cf. aph. 237). The apparently clumsy transition...
Dear List Members: The penulimate paragraph, Strauss continues: "The philosophers of the future may belong to a united Europe but Europe is still _l'Europe des...
Dear List Members: This is the last paragraph of the Note. I also want to apologize for mislabeling the headings of the various paragraph numbers before. I...
Dear List Members: I have decided on my own to do a public reading of the first lecture of Strauss's "The Problem of Socrates," the first of the five lectures...
Dear Mr. Pehme, Could I suggest you also look at the version of these lectures published in Interpretation.. especially given some concerns the edition used in...
... I believe the first part is Strauss' but the latter part is Pangle's. Actually how many lectures were in fact given? This is a factual question. Also...
Regarding the first sentence.... Does this not echo with the classical/Socratic line about knowledge, that one starts with opinion and move to knowledge......
... === message truncated === It appears that Strauss starts with Aristophanes because Nietzsche would. This is quite telling. But I would hold that for the...
... The RCPR version is easily obtained by everyone, and to do a reading it is easier to have the same text. In another message, you write: "I believe the...
Clifford Bates writes: [snip] ... Yes, it opens a lot of speculation, but it is not easy to make out exactly why or for what purpose immediately. Yet, if we...
The comments made below are not intended as a criticism of Mr Pehme's desire to lead a slow reading of the version published in RCPR. There is much to learn...
David North
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... Thank you, but I take criticism very well, no matter how brutal. If you need to take off on me, please do not hesitate. [snip] ... Outline, yes, but...
... There seems to be a fair bit of that sort about at the moment. ... Comprehensiveness, I wonder, I had in mind the comments made by Catherine Zuckert when...
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