Episode 135 ... Leo Strauss - Ancients vs. Moderns

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This episode is a gem ! You article Strauss idea so masterfully which admits just how well you have comprehended this view.

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I would say this is one of my favorite episodes but I like so many of them. The real vs ideal is super intriguing though and I'd love to hear more episodes on that. I've listened to this one many times already.

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[eliasqueen]

Fascinating. Leo Strauss is great, also I love that you have Isaiah Berlin episodes- his introduction to Joseph De Maistre’s “Considerations on France” is one of my favorite philosophical essays (on a Philosophical essay lol).

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I really wanted to ask for episodes about John Mill and Etienne de la Boetie, if I may.

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[jkonrad]

Great stuff. For the Everyman like myself

[williambuysse]

Well presented. Machiavelli initiated the break with the tradition by openly and publically rejecting the ontological priority of ends in nature. This he did long before the mathematicizing of nature and it's concomitant metaphysical neutrality which followed in the 17th century.
Also Machiavelli launched not just a revolution in philosophy but a blasphemous assault upon Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular. Modern philosophy would be further aided albeit unawares by Luther.

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[trombone]

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I just listened to his latest podcast about Hannah Arendt, not yet available on youtube.
The ending is powerful.
A veiled or not-so-veiled call to action.

[christophersnowden]

How do you decide when rational analysis is appropriate and when it is not? Like Hegel said, to know a limit as a limit is to be beyond it. Reason is broader than enlightenment rationality

[orddro]

16:20 what modernity, post-enlightenment, eventually leads to:
Relativism
Historicism
Scientism
Economism
Or Nihilism.

Without a strict value system we might derive meaning from these schools of thought.

[rodrigodiazcasas]

We need Values, we need Guidance, we need Morality. Why does Leo Strauss resembles my town preacher so much? hahaha my god, i feel i went back five centuries with this podcast.

[mikechristian-vnle]

Strauss was mid-20th Century, not early. He died, at 74, in 1973, and started publishing in the 1930s.

[Elaboratestories]

This is great it really helps with understanding what's going on today.