author: steven b smith

Reclaiming Patriotism in an Age of Extremes

... individualism found its later voice in the poetry of Walt Whitman—America's first poet of genius—and heirs like Woody Guthrie, Jack Kerouac, Alan Ginsberg, and Bob Dylan. Whitman was America's first bohemian. With his open shirt and big ...

The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss

... science held by Weber. Each notion is more adequate than the previous one ... new science could still be of some value because it can "ascertain that very ... attached to a semireligious understanding of science — "science as a vocation ...

The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss

... Philosophy, ed. Thomas Pangle (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983). Thoughts on Machiavelli (Chicago ... uchicago.edu/. BOOKS ABOUT LEO STRAUSS Batnitzky, Leora, Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of ...

Political Philosophy

... Thrasymachus cannot help but admit. So justice cannot be simply power, it is power in conjunction with knowledge. We are close to the famous Platonic thesis that all virtue is knowledge. Most of the exchange with Thrasymachus turns on ...

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