Leo Strauss on Persecution, Education, and Revelation with Michael Millerman
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The History of Political Philosophy
Strauss' view is that the classical teaching orients human life and political life by what's best in us. The moderns, starting with Machiavelli, saw that as too lofty a goal. Strauss believed that even modern nihilism can't be properly understood without tracing the history from Plato to Machiaveelli ultimately to the state we're in now.
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