In preparation for the @MethexisATX 'Contra Strauss' seminar, I have published a short response to Leo Strauss's essay 'Reason and Revelation' (1948). ryanhaecker.substack.com/p/contra-strau… "This conflict between Neo-Hellenistic academic skepticism and Christian gnosis raises a higher philosophical question concerning the legitimacy of Strauss’s concept of philosophy in general, and his political philosophy in particular. For, throughout his essay ‘Reason and Revelation’, Strauss insists that philosophy stands opposed to the religion of the Bible because, as Heinrich Meier has argued, the compulsory obligatoriness of the divine law is discursively inscrutable to human reason, divine law stands above philosophical reason, and yet it is only through philosophy that the human desire to know without foundations or finality can be satisfied. The final satisfaction of philosophy, what François Laruelle calls the ‘determination-in-the-last-instance’, is here suspended before a pragmatically oscillating pivot of exoteric obedience to divine and human law, but a esoteric questioning of its fundamental assumptions that must forever remain fixed on the problematics of its questioning."
