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Tuesday, August 6, 2024

CHAOS IS NOT AN ACCIDENT, IT’S THE GOAL

Some introductory essays into Strauss' work are What is Liberal Education?, 1959, and The Three Waves of Modernity, 1975. 

Paul Krause explains that,

Strauss is responsible for two notable ideas in the history of Western political philosophy: The contest between Athens (Greek Rationalism) and Jerusalem (Abrahamic revelation) which was synthesized by Christianity as the thesis that underlay classical Western civilization; and the rupture (or break) in political philosophy between classics and moderns.  His essay “The Three Waves of Modernity” is his most famous essay and is generally anthologized in most textbooks that examine the history of Western political philosophy.  His most famous book, Natural Right and History (1953), deals with this subject in greater detail.  (Other important texts of his include: The City and ManOn Tyranny: An Interpretation of Xenophon’s Hiero, and Socrates and Aristophanes, and On Plato’s Symposium.)