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Strauss' Natural Right and History, Part 1

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The Problem With Teleological Understanding of Nature

Strauss: In the Aristotelian teaching, apparently, there is a connection between or have a teleological science of man situated within a teleological understanding of nature as a whole. He suggests that it's impossible really to give an account of human ends by conceiving them merely as positive by desires or impulse,. So he's suggesting that you do have to have the theological account of man. And so I suspect that for Strauss Aristotle does not actually hold that the universe is teleological.

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