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The Stakes: Thoughts on Machiavelli

The American Mind

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The Law of Reason in the Kuzari?

Struuss's works are divided into three periods. The early period is philosophy in law, political philosophy of hobbs a and the m tn. And then oom says that the late period begins with thoughts on machiavelli. While i read it more intensely at sometimes, when i'm just kind of getting absorbed in it, what ends up happening is you pick up polivius or some other thing to think about. You can't take for granted that when strauss cites an outside text, he's being faithful to the text. Ai to to really get yourself through that book requires a massive amount of effort.

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