Leo Strauss Foundation

In his 1952 lectures “Progress or Return,” Strauss commented on Nietzsche's critique of modern morality as biblical morality without the biblical God (the famous George Eliot aphorism in Twilight of the Idols). In the Q&A, someone asked Strauss if Freud's approach would be similar to Nietzsche. Strauss replied: “I would say that Freud is unthinkable, I believe, without Nietzsche....Freud himself is very powerful in Europe; based on Nietzsche, but much narrower than Nietzsche, and without the awareness of the fundamental difficulties. Freud remained throughout his life a naive believer in science. And Freud's primary notion was that the old authorities would have to be rewritten in terms of security ultimately. So he is really one of the greatest scientists of modern times, certainly. But precisely for this reason he was in no way aware of the problem of science.”

Taking it for granted you will feed it Strauss's commentary and Mansfield's New Modes and Orders?

💥 New issue of Interpretation just dropped.

💥On March 27, we are discussing Jonathan Swift's 𝗚𝘂𝗹𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿'𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘀 at @BostonCollege.

interesting exchanges between Gadamer & Piatigorsky, Gellner, Kolakowski, etc. Gadamer on Unvordenklichkeit, Andacht

@Polemarchos_ @alexpriou @HannesKerber He was profligate with exclamation points in his early writings. Another one in the notes on Schmitt and !'s are all over his writings from the 1920s

@alexpriou @ls_foundation @HannesKerber In his "Notes on the Concept of the Political" where he purposfully misquotes Schmitt.

Aside from the top of p. 35 of "What Is Political Philosophy?," where else in his published writings does Leo Strauss use an exclamation point? Emphasis on published writings—I'm not interested in the correspondence or course transcripts. @ls_foundation @HannesKerber

The “Guide for the Perplexed” is currently in Zurich, and according to Kedem’s estimate, might sell for more than the opening price and reach $2-3 million. timesofisrael.com/first-printed-… [Maimonides in the US Capitol]

@alexpriou @DonBreslauer26 contemporarythinkers.org/leo-strauss/es… -- also found in Published But Uncollected

@ls_foundation @DonBreslauer26 Citation for this? I don't recognize it off hand.

@DonBreslauer26 @alexpriou Nice. Doesn't prove the book version isn't a deliberate oath. Here is another instance that doesn't count as an oath

@ls_foundation @alexpriou the original article had a "?" instead.

@alexpriou Do you count this?

@ls_foundation Helpful, thank you! As to the exclamation point, can you think of any others?

Why do I ask? I'm thinking this may be the closest Strauss comes to using an oath in his published writings. See "What Is Political Philosophy?" I.3 (p. 10).

The 1936 movie The Petrified Forest “That's more than Duke can stand” – Strauss's example of a gangster's weakness for justice (student notes, Montesquieu course, 1954)

Bloom’s paper (correct date is 1984) archive.org/details/allan-… and the beginning of Kolakowski’s response

Here is a picture from the event: Bloom, Bellow, Yehoshua...

There are a few comments about "God forgiving the philosophers". E.g. Sept 30, '73 to Scholem. Also Mutual Influence of Theology and Philosophy....

tandfonline.com/eprint/AT2DKKM…. (You'll have to read the end notes to get the full force of the argument.)

A restored portion of Strauss's "Problem of Socrates" lecture (St. John's College, Annapolis, April 1970) youtu.be/yBS0KXSbKik

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@ls_foundation @RaqKach What book title is this page from?

Harry Jaffa on Sherlock Holmes

Leo Strauss was naturalized on February 1, 1944.

@RaqKach Thanks.

@ls_foundation same page twice?

second page