... I'm not sure Strauss's view had anything related to what could be believed in. Strauss pointed out that knowledge is deficient when it cannot present...
No, natural right is not subjective. It is radically objective. All peoples in all places admit that there are rational _nomoi_, as we learn from Strauss's...
... This is to be expected because you say it over and over again. ... I don't know the academic writers of which you speak. The reason I brought up the topic...
How shall we read L. Frank Baum, then? 1899-1900, mind you, the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Dorothy is the common man, and perhaps, as the female, the philosopher ...
... peoples ... from ... I agree, and I am not sure when I said otherwise. True, these laws are conventional; ... also ... insure ... rule. That ... Presnall. ...
Dangerous metaphysical ground you've allowed here, Mr. Pehme. In NRH, Strauss footnotes the metaphysicist Alfred North Whitehead. Process. You opened the...
Dear Mr. Pehme, I have made the "species are arbitrary" argument myself, and have been stymied by the rejoinder that members of a species can breed with each ...
I am not saying that there are no differences between animals and plants. What I am saying is that the classification system based on evolution is not correct....
Mr. Watkins, As Strauss was fond of pointing out the horse and donkey can breed. Mules cannot. Also with modern technology, DNA can be altered and potentially...
... Dear Mr. Valle, The mule example never seems to impress the evolutionists, though, I've found. Perhaps mules are a sort of monster. Genetic engineering is...
Evolutionary theory implies not only progress (and ascent, as in the Ascent of Man), but that evolution is solely materially based. Evolution provides nothing...
... Interesting, Mr. Valle. I wasn't aware of that. Is Strauss getting a little poetic here about himself, some miscegenation of reason and revelation, and...
Dear List Members: I don't know about you, but I think Strauss's Zionist writings are quite inferior, as are a lot of his writing and correspondence as a young...
Dear Mr Pehme, I think you are wrong here about the quality of his Zionist writings. In them there are some very great insights of a mind working on certain ...
... It never impresses because the conclusion being drawn is not correct. Hybrids are simply not always infertile. Purebreds are not always fertile. There is...
Mr. Bates, What I don't think is true is that there is a kind of development or "intellectual" biography that we can ascribe to Strauss, or, for that matter,...
Mr Pehme, Again, I find myself seriously disagreeing with your assessment of the issue and the depth and quality of the early writings. First it's the mature...
Mr. Bates, I should have been more clear about the Hobbes book: It is accepted, because it is so conventional in character, i.e., the academic world liked it,...
Mr. Pehme, Thank you for your thoughtful post, and please forgive my delayed reply. Your thoughts on modern medicine are quite on target, and I must admit that...
Mr. McAuley, The alleged dichotomy between reason and revelation is a false opposition that Strauss uses precisely because it is a false one, like Athens and ...
Dear Mr. Pehme, Rhinos do pop up here periodically, don't they? But I doubt that you could even get a rhino inside a Firebird, never mind dance in it. In a ...
Isn't the yellow brick road the gold standard? Isn't the scarecrow the farmer without a brain? Isn't the tin man the industrialist without a heart--or at the...
So, Mr.Pehme, That begs two questions oft briefly discussed here but, I fear, insufficiently. Why did Strauss consider himself a political scientist with a...
Well, Strauss, Mr. Valle, tells us quite simply. Political philosophy is not just the study and philosophy of politics, but it is the political use of ...
We are frequently told that Einstein was a great believer in a god. Well, apparently not. Best regards, Kalev Pehme 'Childish superstition: Einstein's letter...
Allegory is a tough nut. Perhaps I was too harsh regarding the Wizard of Oz. L. Frank Baum offers an exit from American politics. He says that discussions of...
Dear List Members, I have been thinking a lot about democracy, the real thing, not the modern republican one that claims to be democratic. I mean the democracy...
"I would rather be governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than by the two thousand people on the faculty of Harvard...
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