[lbo-talk] Leo Strauss (was: Anseim Jappe)

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Wed Sep 20 09:27:27 PDT 2006


Chuck Grimes wrote:


>Since absolute truths are uncontestable and immune to the liberal
>democratic arena of debate, even in the abstract as rational dialogue,
>and in principle can not be moderated, mediated, or modified without
>falling prey to evil relativism, it almost falls like bricks crumbling from
>the facade of the police state, that the proper political arena for
>the combat of absolute truths is war. There in the blood and iron
>machine, power and fortune determine which absolute survives. And thus
>we are lead, step by step to understand that the most resolutewill to power
>is the final arbiter of such absolute truths.
>
>Seig Heil.
>
And how appropriate then that this will-to-power war will be lost to messy, process-driven, guerrilla warfare.

Joanna


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