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,...
Dear List Members: I want to warn you that this message is very long, unlike the last few which were very short. I combined these two paragraphs, because...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "As I have indicated, the action of the _Republic_ consists in Socrates' first bringing into open the his latent conflict...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "Now, the best city in speech was founded in order to prove the strength of the Just Speech. Hence, it would seem to...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "Justice is self-sufficiency and hence is philosophy. Justice thus understood is possible regardless of whether the best...
Dear List Members: Strauss ends the digression and goes back: "To return to the argument of the _Republic_, by realizing the essential limitations of the...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "It is, then, of the essence of political things to be below that perfection of which the individual is capable." The...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues with morality and ends up soul: "Yet if morality has two radically different roots, how can there be a unity of morality,...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "In the _Republic_ Plato suggests a parititon of the soul into three parts, reason, spiritedness, and desire." This...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues with thumos: "By assigning to spiritedness a higher status than to desire, Plato depreciates eros. This depreciation...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "Being secondary in comparison to desire, spiritedness is in service of desire." We started this thread on thumos with...
Dear List Members: We are in the penultimate and ultimate paragraphs of this lecture. Strauss continues: "Philosophy is not spirited." The great summary of the...
Dear List Members: Nearly at the end of the previous lecture, Strauss declared that philosophy is not spirited. In effect, he also brings to the fore the...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "According to the widespread view, the opposite, or the opponent, of classical political philosophy is sophistry, the...
Dear List Members: I just want to say that my next few posts are really meant to be read together, more so than usual. So as you go along, keep in mind what I...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "Let me state from the outset how in my opinion Plato settles the quarrel between philosophy and poetry. He emphasizes...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "Autonomous poetry gives expression to the passions by poetically imitating the passions; it consecrates the passions." ...
Dear List Members: Now that we are at war once again-- ah, to be in Baghdad now that spring here!--I figure that we ought to be do something truly important....
Dear List Members: I have not been posting as much as I would like, because, Mr. Bates will be happy to hear, I am occupied reading his book, which I will...
Dear List Members: Perhaps nothing drives the poet more than the desire to create something beautiful as Strauss intimates in the previous paragraph. What is...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "The first discussion of poetry takes place at the earliest possible moment in the founding of the best city. The second,...
Dear List Members: I am an idiot when it comes to counting. The posts that were numbered as 5:11 and 5:12 are actually 5:13 and 5:14. I failed to look to the...
Dear List Members: I have decided to combine these three paragraphs together because they are so inter-related that it would be difficult to separate them....
Dear List Members: Strauss continues: "Nietzsche has perhaps unwittingly given a perfect interpretation of what Plato conveys. The artists, Nietzsche says,...
Dear List Members: Strauss continues about poetry: "This interpretation of the teaching of the _Republic_ regarding poetry is confirmed by the teaching...
Dear List Members: Strauss now enters into the question of the proper prelude that a legislator must compose to give his laws the proper kind persuasion so...
Dear List Members: With the poet's ability to imitate all sorts of men and the differences between men while at the same time being able to imitate the true...
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