
Strauss' Persecution and the Art of Writing | The New Thinkery Ep. 46
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My, You Already Got Your Social Security Checks
POCOC says one of the problems with giving an esoteric reading or reading between the lines is that whatever you come up with is going to be non falsifiable. Quinn Skinner, another famous commenter on Machiavelli's text, what he takes to be two assumptions. One: All interpretations are insulated against criticism by the claims that its critics are thoughtless men. But we also have to pay attention to the fact that Strauss just pointed out that this is actually a phenomenon, right? It has actually occurred.
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