The Stakes: Defending Leo Strauss ft. Michael Millerman
The American Mind
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Is There a More Profoundly Anti-Liberal Thinker Than Plato?
Strauss: Is there a more profoundly anti liberal thinker than plato? And yet, nobody gets blamed for reading plato. It's another thing to kill someone extra legally who didn't do anything but whose death may somehow serve the ends of the state and machiavelli does mend that. We can read him. But all this iss i think, rather silly, as as you point out, but it is still useful to us to point out the hypocrises," he says.
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