[lbo-talk] Straussian moralist as high rolling gamber

[andie nachgeborenen]

.From Horowitz's Frontpage: Strauss is an ambiguous, sometimes even
troubling, figure, but he is essential to the conservative revival of
our time and he offers the intellectual depth we are so desperately in
need of. As a crude measure of his importance for those readers who
continue to believe that philosophical matters are of no practical
importance, consider the following list of his students or students of
his students: Justice Clarence Thomas; Supreme Court nominee Robert
Bork; Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz; former Assistant
Secretary of State Alan Keyes; former Secretary of Education William
Bennett (This is plagiarized -- almost verbatim --  from Shadia Drury's
Leo Strauss and the Ameriacn Right, p. 3.)

.From The Claremont Institute Website (4/11/03) Bennett, after
disclaiming that he was a Straussian of any stripe, offered a lucid
mini-tutorial on justice in Plato's Republic, and gently (perhaps too
gently) advised his interlocutors that they were not in full command of
their faculties, (But if he were a Straussian he might lie about it!
;>) Shadia Drury does not call a Bennett a Straussian but only a
neoconservative influenced by Strauss.  Back in the late 1980s his name
was mentioned along with real Straussians like Bloom and Bellow for his
defense of "the canon" as an embodiment of civilization against
"cultural relativism." That may account for the impression thaty he's
one.. He's creepazoid anyway. jks

andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:A student of Strauss, if memory is correct. jks

Luke Weiger <lweiger at umich.edu> wrote: ----- Original Message ----- From: andie nachgeborenen To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 11:33 PMSubject: Re: [lbo-talk] Straussian moralist as high rolling gamber > 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 You think Bennett is a Straussian?
-- Luke

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