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Letters
Letters
Straussed Out • Mill’s Principle Pleasures? • The ‘I’s Don’t Have It • Thought and Feeling • Literally Philosophical • Fibonacci Sequels
Straussed Out
DEAR EDITOR: You do not refute all of the charges against Leo Strauss in your brief article in Issue 55 of Philosophy Now. Similarly I cannot here run down the list of all the serious accusations that speak against your defence of him. Instead, I will rely on an article by Nicholas Xenos, a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, printed in the Spring 2004 issue of Logos, called ‘Leo Strauss and the Rhetoric of the War on Terror.’ In it Xenos quotes as follows from an as yet untranslated letter by Strauss to the well-known scholar Karl Lowith.
Strauss wrote to Lowith in May 1933, five months after Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor, and a month after implementation of the first anti-Jewish legislation.
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