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Strauss' Natural Right and History, Part 1

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The Influence of German Nihilism on the US

Lincoln was the person who underscored this as a faith, right? And really explicitly, like in the L'Siam address, right? Pushed in the direction of this faith. Look at how many episodes were drawn together. Here's another one, German nihilism, we did an episode on. I think a lot of what he's talking about here is informed by some of his lectures and essays that he gave,. but were only published posthumously from like the 30s and 40s. He sees the influence of this thought and through his stories, doesn't mean he saw what happened in Germany. It was a movement for which he was much too young to do anything

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