Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "Yet the first and most important part of the charge against Socrates concerns his alleged impiety. As Xenophon makes...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "At the end of Xenophon's refutation of the indictment of Socrates, we have come to realize that Socrates' legal justice...
Dear List Members: The following three paragraphs ought to be put together; however, I am afraid that to do that would create a massive large message, so I...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "Xenophon is very sparing of his explicit praise of Socrates." As I noted before, praise is a very difficult thing, as it...
That Strauss was critical of Locke is not controversial. Indeed, I suppose that even those Claremont writers who argue that Locke is a latter day Aristotle,...
... As far as I can see, you're reading is completely off-base. If you want to make a case, then start reading, line by line, as we do here. Close reading, not...
Dear List Members: Let me say that this paragraph or the next appears to be the central part of this lecture, and it was likely given the actual structure of...
Dear List Members: From this point on we come to some of the most important things that go to the heart of all of Strauss's views. This paragraph and the next...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "Socrates is distinguished from all philosophers who preceded him by the fact that he sees the core of the whole, or of...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "By recognizing that the political is irreducible to the nonpolitical, that the political is _sui generis_, Socrates does...
Dear List Members: This paragraph is the continuation of the argument of the previous one. Strauss continues: "It is with a view to law that the distinction...
... Could you give a few cites for this claim? I always thought that the only claim for legitmacy, if it even existed in Aristotle, was justice... either...
... Of course, the only true claim to legitimacy in Aristotle is justice, no, not mere justice, but goodness itself. I do not want to imply that is not the...
Dear List Members: We go from desire of the nobility for law, to the issues of property and then Strauss gets us into incest: "At the beginning of Xenophon's...
A recent speculative exchange between Mr Pehme & Mr Bates - ... For the record - Mr Dutton has been awarded his PhD and will graduate from the University of ...
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David North writes: The immediate cause of his leaving the list was some disaster with his computer (software/hardware). As I said, a spiritual crisis. I have...
Dear List Members: We are in the throes of a terrible blizzard here in New York. I am on Long Island, and I have been out early this morning to feed the birds...
... By and large prudent Mr Pehme, ignore the prattle of those champions of the universal and homogenous state. Tourists are always welcome, especially those...
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David North writes: By and large prudent Mr Pehme, ignore the prattle of those champions of the universal and homogenous state. Tourists are always welcome, ...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues from the previous paragraph as he elaborates on the best regime. "As Xenophon indicates by presenting his utopia in a work...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "The _Oeconomicus_ is a conversation between Socrates and Crito's son Critobulus, a young man do did not do well. We...
Dear List Members: The penultimate paragraph of this lecture is the actual end of the lecture while the ultimate is a transition into the next lecture (but it...
Dear List Members: It was not my intent to get this far, as I really only want to do the Aristophanes portion of these lectures. Again, I want to warn everyone...
Dear List Members: We are still involved in the problems of the dialogue form. Strauss continues: "The problem of the Platonic dialogue is, in a way,...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "The beginning of understanding of Platonic dialogues is wonder." As in Aristotle, the complusion of wonder that makes us...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues about the theatricality of the dialogues: "If we look at Plato's _Apology of Socrates_ from this point of view we see that...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues into the Republic: "This observation induces us to pay the greatest attention, to begin with, to the _Republic_." The...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "The antagonist of Socrates in the _Republic_ is Thrasymachus, the rhetorician. As becomes clear from a brief exchange...
Dear List Members: I should note that Strauss has three major discussions of the Republic: in City and Man, here in the Socrates, and in his article, Plato,...
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