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...
Dear List Members: Poetry is remarkable because it appears to be able to imitate anything that is human, and anthropomophosize anything that isn't. Strauss...
Dear List Members: We now come to the penultimate paragraph of all the lectures. "Is there no difference between Platonic philosophy and poetry, or rather ...
Hi! I am new on the list; I am very interested in Strauss's reading of Locke, and I see there is a discussion on the subject going on for some time. May I ask...
Hi! I am new on the list; I am very interested in Strauss's reading of Locke, and I see there is a discussion on the subject going on for some time. May I ask...
Check the Current APSA site for the past conference and the papers available at that site which had at least panels dealing with this question. As for the...
Dear List Members: We come to the ultimate paragraph of the lectures as printed in RCPR. Strauss continues: "By saying that poetry does not present the good...
Dear List With the total support of Mr Pehme, I will attempt a line by line reading of On German Nihilism. In return for this, on the Strauss list, Mr Pehme...
I shall quote Strauss and comment as we go... l. What is nihilism? And how far can nihilism be said to be a specifically German phenomenon? I am not able to...
... much ... the ... German ... nihilism," ... appalling, ... on ... reason, ... then ... of ... driven ... mentioned ... the ... systematic ... We may note in...
A war was underway only in Europe and China, both of which the US people wanted no part of. You had a nation not wanting to get involved and keep out of...
Also perhaps the context of the best selling book of the prior year has some telling why the idea of German Nihilism might be of some interest: HERMANN...
... Yes. The feeling in the essay seems to be almost one of a war correspondent speaking to people who are concerned from afar, but concerned nonetheless. One...
... I want to thank Mr. Lancaster for beginning this reading, as I believe it is a worthy project the list. As this lecture is newly published and not well ...
I have not been receiving the immediate bouncebacks from this list, and I hope that they have arrived to you all. ... Strauss clearly discounts the very...
... Daniel ... I shall have to look into that. Anyone know anything about the latter fellow? I know several people who studied there. ... may be a ... German ...
... This is not out on a limb. It's just not an open reading of the text. Strauss: It must however be under stood from the outset that National Socialism is...
... Nihilism, National ... unenlightened ... on ... admirable; ... reason, ... text. ... I did not mean to imply that German Nihilism as a whole was either ...
Dear List Members: I believe that one of the preliminary remarks worth making is that Strauss, speaking before the entry of the US into the war, does not once...
... Nihilism, National ... unenlightened ... on ... admirable; ... reason, ... text. ... It is perhaps interesting to preview a paragraph not far ahead: 6. I...
4. One would have to possess a gift which I totally lack, the gift of a lyrical reporter, in order to give those of you who have not lived for many years in...
... Srauss lacks the gift of the journalist, especially ironically twisted into "lyrical reporter," to describe the emotions of the Germans underlying German...
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