hi, try this site:http://www.straussian.net/
the key books are from Strauss himself, "Natural Right and History"
his buddy Allen Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind
Harry Jaffa's A New Birth of Freedom and Blooms translation of
Plato's Republic. You have to understand Strauss doesn't really WANT
the common man to understand Philosophy, it just muddies up their
lives. It is to remain the study of esoterics and exoterics and you are just supposed to agree with their arguments. So good luck, you are bound to get bogged down with the subject.
yeah, it kind of makes them like, say, a Pope who make pronouncements on what GOD means about this or what GOD means
about that, thus setting himself up as the intermediary between GOD and the common folk, who are clearly unable to reason.
Therefore he humbly (!) offers his services as the legitimate interpreter of GOD's Commands. It is in their best interest to set up a us vs. them with the us in the drivers seat of course. Makes for job security, thats for sure!
Originally posted by sasquatch672This sounds a little like Nietzsche to me, with the Übermenschen on top, and a distinction between master morality and slave (or herd) morality.
Well see, sonhouse, here's the thing that pisses me off: Strauss apparently believed, like Plato, that there were those fit to rule and those fit to be ruled. Where Strauss diverges from Plato is here: Strauss does not require moral virtue of his leaders, because there is no morality. There is only the right of the ruling class to rule the undercla ...[text shortened]... You can't use a whole lot of big words that don't mean anything when your jaw's wired shut.
But I don't really know what I'm talking about either, so don't wire my jaw shut or break my knuckles.