The Last Six Paragraphs of Thoughts on Machiavelli Are Rhetorical

I don't believe the final six paragraphs of thoughts on machiavelli are purely rhetorical, even if theth the condemnatory rhetoric is a bit higher than strauss landed later in life. And that is to say, machinely may not have intended the outcome that we find ourselves in. The crisis of the west is ultimatelyan unintended consequence of the modern machiavelian revolution. For strauss, plato and aristotle just had superior answers to these questions,. Those who follow them are wiser than those who break with them. Ats one of the main purposes of this book is to show you modernity at its absolute essence - so we know where the real corps points of disagreement