For those who are interested, The Leo Strauss Center has this lecture, which is an hour and twenty minutes long in total, as well as fifteen other lectures of similar length as part of Strauss's course on Plato's Meno. They are available for download at this URL: leostrausscenter.uchicago.edu/course/plato-meno-spring-quarter-1966
I have allowed the above comments to be viewed because it is necessary to see the kinds of attacks that have been and continue to be made against Strauss. One mustn't forget that Socrates was hauled into court on capital charges, by Meletus, Anytus, and Lycon. Strauss too is accused of being a "corrupter of the young."
I found Strauss after reading a pamphlet handed out by advocates pan handling for Lyndon LaRouche, a one time presidential nominee who now appears to be a cult leader. I thought it sounded fascinating, a neo-con conspiracy with Strauss as its godfather.... Reading Strauss has helped me immensely, there is something therapeutic in his writings to me, and that I no longer feel alone... Any writing that shows the esoteric will be attacked by the mainstream, but he is one of my hero's.
Alan thank you very much for these videos! I am remember that I have read these very words in "What is Political Philosophy." But hearing Strauss speak is on a whole other plane. One who truly listens will learn from Strauss, regardless of what we think of him.
Yes, this is the voice of Leo Strauss lecturing in 1966 on Plato's Meno. The series of the first lecture will contain some 6 segments. There were 16 or 17 lectures delivered, unless I am mistaken.
MrAllanBloom, You are conflating two entirely different issues. While I agree that "exenrotexas" claim is scurrilous and misleading, Socrates was indeed guilty of the charges brought against him by Meletus, et al.--something that a careful reading of both Plato and Xenophon concede, as well as Strauss himself (and his disciples).
How far is this a 'destructive' (ironic term if we are readers of H, nicht?) critique of H? Can you share your understanding of what thesis, imputed to H, that is herein violated? I can only very feebly suppose it has something to do with the continuing possibility of a, may I call it, value politics? But what do you actually intend here with this strange title? Or is your claim sheer Barnum Bailey-guerilla exploitation!
Leo Strauss came to America on a Rockefeller grant arranged by Carl Schmitt. Schmitt was the German lawyer for Fritz Thyssen, Prescott BUSH and ADOLF HITLER. Strauss was the philosophical guru for the NEOCONS. NEOCONS are fascists without the anti-semitism. An excellent BBC documentary which covers much of Straussian views is "The Power of Nightmares" which compares Strauss's views and the similar view of Sayed Kotb, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood out of which came Osama and al Qaeda.
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For those who are interested, The Leo Strauss Center has this lecture, which is an hour and twenty minutes long in total, as well as fifteen other lectures of similar length as part of Strauss's course on Plato's Meno.
They are available for download at this URL:
leostrausscenter.uchicago.edu/course/plato-meno-spring-quarter-1966
Thanks so much for posting.
I could probably listen to him lecture right into the morning.
I have allowed the above comments to be viewed because it is necessary to see the kinds of attacks that have been and continue to be made against Strauss. One mustn't forget that Socrates was hauled into court on capital charges, by Meletus, Anytus, and Lycon. Strauss too is accused of being a "corrupter of the young."
Beautiful.
I found Strauss after reading a pamphlet handed out by advocates pan handling for Lyndon LaRouche, a one time presidential nominee who now appears to be a cult leader. I thought it sounded fascinating, a neo-con conspiracy with Strauss as its godfather.... Reading Strauss has helped me immensely, there is something therapeutic in his writings to me, and that I no longer feel alone... Any writing that shows the esoteric will be attacked by the mainstream, but he is one of my hero's.
Alan thank you very much for these videos!
I am remember that I have read these very words in "What is Political Philosophy." But hearing Strauss speak is on a whole other plane. One who truly listens will learn from Strauss, regardless of what we think of him.
Yes, this is the voice of Leo Strauss lecturing in 1966 on Plato's Meno.
The series of the first lecture will contain some 6 segments. There were 16 or 17 lectures delivered, unless I am mistaken.
MrAllanBloom,
You are conflating two entirely different issues. While I agree that "exenrotexas" claim is scurrilous and misleading, Socrates was indeed guilty of the charges brought against him by Meletus, et al.--something that a careful reading of both Plato and Xenophon concede, as well as Strauss himself (and his disciples).
How far is this a 'destructive' (ironic term if we are readers of H, nicht?) critique of H? Can you share your understanding of what thesis, imputed to H, that is herein violated? I can only very feebly suppose it has something to do with the continuing possibility of a, may I call it, value politics? But what do you actually intend here with this strange title? Or is your claim sheer Barnum Bailey-guerilla exploitation!
Leo Strauss came to America on a Rockefeller grant arranged by Carl Schmitt. Schmitt was the German lawyer for Fritz Thyssen, Prescott BUSH and ADOLF HITLER. Strauss was the philosophical guru for the NEOCONS. NEOCONS are fascists without the anti-semitism.
An excellent BBC documentary which covers much of Straussian views is "The Power of Nightmares" which compares Strauss's views and the similar view of Sayed Kotb, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood out of which came Osama and al Qaeda.