[lbo-talk] Straussian moralist as high rolling gamber

Ian Murray seamus2001 at attbi.com
Sun May 4 20:41:35 PDT 2003


----- Original Message ----- From: "andie nachgeborenen" <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>


> The funny thing is when the esotertic teaching is exposed. Strauss
claimed that God is in fact dead, nihilism reigns, there is no truth, and all the excesses of vilgar Nietzscheanism are permitted. But the hoi poloi cannot bear this teaching -- it would be bad for them, they'd expend their energies in a frenzy of sex, drugs, and rock n roll instead of toiling for their betters in a properly puritanical way. So _of course_ Bennett doeswn't think gambling (or, for that matter, parricide and incest) is wrong. Nothing is wrong! (For him.) He cannot, however, consistent with Strauss, say, Well _I'm_ special and you're not. So he flounders and flops like a fish on the hook. It is delightful to see. jks

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And the hoi poloi cannot be permitted to engage in a nihilistic analysis of law and legal theory, lest anarchism[s] be given a hearing in the agora.................

Ian



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