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Leo Strauss on Persecution, Education, and Revelation with Michael Millerman

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The Importance of Compassion in Philosophy

Strauss: Even when we're not convinced that we have stumbled upon or discovered the truth, the final truth of things, because we have socratic knowledge that we don't know. And yet even there it comes with the social responsibility of not wanting to corrode opinions that keep a community together. That makes us gentle, you know, the, the, it reduces the zealotry of dogmatism in a way.

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