tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post8952815732996955988..comments2024-02-29T00:46:38.800-08:00Comments on Washingtons Blog: Leo Strauss and the Neocon Lust for TerrorUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53246864840716464.post-66738184759123163622011-04-28T04:55:35.322-07:002011-04-28T04:55:35.322-07:00I discovered your blog recently and there are many...I discovered your blog recently and there are many points I agree with (US terrorism, corporatocracy, to name a few). For other points, I disagree but prefer to suspend any judgement for the time being.<br /><br />I felt however the need to react to this post, even though it was posted a few years ago. Who knows ? Maybe you'll read it and may even read Leo Strauss differently. After all, even Plato, you can read him differently from the way it is taught at Harvard. So my reply should be as an invitation to read differently.<br /><br />In my humble opinion, Leo Strauss is a philosopher and has nothing to do with neocons. It does not matter to me if they claim any relation to him.<br /><br />It is true that there are many ambiguities in his writings. There are well known passages where it is especially difficult to grasp what he meant. But no man is an island, and again, even Plato, even say the Bible, one can read differently from the canons of the church or whoever. (Especially if in the present case, the church is the church of the neocons.... But basically, the argument remains valid for *any* church.)<br /><br />Leo Strauss deals precisely the subtle relation between philosophy and politics. To begin with, contrary to many so-called neoclassical philosophers, he holds that politics is ontologically inferior to philosophy. This view is explicit in many of his writings, including those dealing with excellence and education.<br /><br />The excerpts quoted above are taken out of context. One of them is from a very sharp review of a book on Plato and is actually a very strong argument against political science as superseding philosophy. Another is a comment on Machiavel. It does not have to reflect Strauss' own politial view. Otherwise, you'd have to say that Strauss supports both Epicurus doctrine on nature and Maimonides' theory of divine providence (which contradict each other), Marsilius' and Machiavel's political theories (also contradict each other) and so on...<br /><br />In fact, the view that Leo Strauss actually supported a self-proclaimed and self-reproducing ruling elite is not even a blatant distorsion of his views. It is ignorance.<br /><br />One of the main claim in Strauss' thought is that true philosophy is always on the verge of destruction; that true philosophers (as opposed to intellectuals) are always persecuted in one form or in another by the political power; and that the true goal of philosophy is not accomplished within the realm of politics.<br /><br />So please. 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