> 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