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	Fifth_Institution_2004-11-07 - Michael Murry A brief look at Leo Strauss and the Neoconservative movement. Keywords: Neoconservative; Leo Strauss Downloads: 217 Average rating: (1 review)
	Leo Strauss lecture on Maimonides 1/3 Leo Strauss lectures on Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed Keywords: Leo Strauss Maimonides Guide of the Perplexed Downloads: 488
	They Own the Judges [AYoS 2007-10-14] - TK Major Acoustic guitar and vocal, add'l vocals. Part of TK Major's blog/podcast project, A Year of Songs ( www.AYearofSongs.org ) This song was written at the height of the Nixon/Vietnam era and reflects the dire social climate of the era as well as the naive anger of a young man. Keywords: they; conspiracy; shadows; puppet masters; hidden; leo strauss; lies Downloads: 276
	Allan Bloom: Nietzsche Lecture 1983 - Allan Bloom [edited and digitally remastered, 2008] This lecture was delivered at Boston College in 1983 to a small group for a series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives". It was intended to explore great philosophic works with a view to how they should be taught to undergraduates. The theme of the seminar was conceived in light of the decline & fall of liberal education in the University. In this lecture Bloom discusses Nietzsche's rejection of liberal democracy, contemporary nihilism, the Last Man, and the Will to Power... Keywords: Allan Bloom; Nietzsche; Existentialism; Heidegger; Political Philosophy; Leo Strauss; Machiavelli; Philosophy; Liberalism; Democracy; Nihilism; Tocqueville Downloads: 1,699 Average rating: (1 review)
	Allan Bloom's Machiavelli Lecture 1/5 - Allan Bloom (edited and digitally remastered, 2008) Allan Bloom delivered this talk as part of the series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives" at Boston College in 1983. The series was intended to help teachers of undergraduates in their teaching of those great works that are essential to a liberal education. The series addressed the decline of liberal learning in the Universities, in America especially. This lecture presents an interpretation of Machiavelli's "Prince" and teaches one how to understand Machiavelli's art of writing... Keywords: Allan Bloom; Plato; Socrates; Nietzsche; Apology of Socrates; Xenophon; Philosophy; Leo Strauss; Machiavelli; The Prince Downloads: 864
	Allan Bloom's Machiavelli Lecture 2/5 - Allan Bloom (edited and digitally remastered, 2008) Allan Bloom delivered this talk as part of the series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives" at Boston College in 1983. The series was intended to help teachers of undergraduates in their teaching of those great works that are essential to a liberal education. The series addressed the decline of liberal learning in the Universities, in America especially. This lecture presents an interpretation of Machiavelli's "Prince" and teaches one how to understand Machiavelli's art of writing... Keywords: Allan Bloom; Plato; Socrates; Nietzsche; Apology of Socrates; Xenophon; Philosophy; Leo Strauss; Machiavelli; The Prince Downloads: 609
	Allan Bloom's Machiavelli Lecture 3/5 - Allan Bloom (edited and digitally remastered, 2008) Allan Bloom delivered this talk as part of the series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives" at Boston College in 1983. The series was intended to help teachers of undergraduates in their teaching of those great works that are essential to a liberal education. The series addressed the decline of liberal learning in the Universities, in America especially. This lecture presents an interpretation of Machiavelli's "Prince" and teaches one how to understand Machiavelli's art of writing... Keywords: Allan Bloom; Plato; Socrates; Nietzsche; Apology of Socrates; Xenophon; Philosophy; Leo Strauss; Machiavelli; The Prince Downloads: 546
	Allan Bloom's Machiavelli Lecture 4/5 - Allan Bloom (edited and digitally remastered, 2008) Allan Bloom delivered this talk as part of the series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives" at Boston College in 1983. The series was intended to help teachers of undergraduates in their teaching of those great works that are essential to a liberal education. The series addressed the decline of liberal learning in the Universities, in America especially. This lecture presents an interpretation of Machiavelli's "Prince" and teaches one how to understand Machiavelli's art of writing... Keywords: Allan Bloom; Plato; Socrates; Nietzsche; Apology of Socrates; Xenophon; Philosophy; Leo Strauss; Machiavelli; The Prince Downloads: 401
	Allan Bloom's Machiavelli Lecture 4 of 5 - Allan Bloom (edited and digitally remastered, 2008) Allan Bloom delivered this talk as part of the series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives" at Boston College in 1983. The series was intended to help teachers of undergraduates in their teaching of those great works that are essential to a liberal education. The series addressed the decline of liberal learning in the Universities, in America especially. This lecture presents an interpretation of Machiavelli's "Prince" and teaches one how to understand Machiavelli's art of writing... Keywords: Allan Bloom; Plato; Socrates; Nietzsche; Apology of Socrates; Xenophon; Philosophy; Leo Strauss; Machiavelli; The Prince Downloads: 205
	Allan Bloom's Machiavelli Lecture 5/5 - Allan Bloom (edited and digitally remastered, 2008) Allan Bloom delivered this talk as part of the series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives" at Boston College in 1983. The series was intended to help teachers of undergraduates in their teaching of those great works that are essential to a liberal education. The series addressed the decline of liberal learning in the Universities, in America especially. This lecture presents an interpretation of Machiavelli's "Prince" and teaches one how to understand Machiavelli's art of writing... Keywords: Allan Bloom; Plato; Socrates; Nietzsche; Apology of Socrates; Xenophon; Philosophy; Leo Strauss; Machiavelli; The Prince; Aristotle Downloads: 538
	Allan Bloom's Socrates Lecture 2 - Allan Bloom (edited and digitally remastered, 2008) Allan Bloom delivered this talk as part of the series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives" at Boston College in 1983. The series was intended to help teachers of undergraduates in their teaching of those great works that are essential to a liberal education. The series addressed the decline of liberal learning in the Universities, in America especially. In this lecture Bloom discusses the founding of the idea of liberal education, and the meaning of the philosophic life expressed in the example o... Keywords: Allan Bloom; Plato; Socrates; Nietzsche; Apology of Socrates; Xenophon; Philosophy; Leo Strauss Downloads: 674
	Allan Bloom's Socrates Lecture 3 - Allan Bloom (edited and digitally remastered, 2008) Allan Bloom delivered this talk as part of the series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives" at Boston College in 1983. The series was intended to help teachers of undergraduates in their teaching of those great works that are essential to a liberal education. The series addressed the decline of liberal learning in the Universities, in America especially. In this lecture Bloom discusses the founding of the idea of liberal education, and the meaning of the philosophic life expressed in the example o... Keywords: Allan Bloom; Plato; Socrates; Nietzsche; Apology of Socrates; Xenophon; Philosophy; Leo Strauss; Machiavelli Downloads: 799
	Allan Bloom's Socrates Lecture 4 - Allan Bloom (edited and digitally remastered, 2008) Allan Bloom delivered this talk as part of the series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives" at Boston College in 1983. The series was intended to help teachers of undergraduates in their teaching of those great works that are essential to a liberal education. The series addressed the decline of liberal learning in the Universities, in America especially. In this lecture Bloom discusses the founding of the idea of liberal education, and the meaning of the philosophic life expressed in the example o... Keywords: Allan Bloom; Plato; Socrates; Nietzsche; Apology of Socrates; Xenophon; Philosophy; Leo Strauss; Machiavelli Downloads: 509
	Allan Bloom - Statement on Alexander Kojeve - Allan Bloom Bloom's introductory editor's statement that prefaces the translation to Kojeve's lectures on Hegel. Keywords: Alexander Kojeve; Allan Bloom; Hegel; Nietzsche; Marx; Heidegger; Existentialism; Historicism; Leo Strauss; Fukuyama Downloads: 114
	Allan Bloom: The Crisis of American Democracy and Liberal Education (Collected Essays) - Allan Bloom A series of essays all published separately by Allan Bloom, most prior to the "Closing of the American Mind", dealing with the problems of liberal education in America, the decline of humane learning, and its special relation to the founding of America. Keywords: Allan Bloom; Liberal Education; Liberalism; Education; Political Philosophy; Tocqueville; Nietzsche; Federalist Papers; Leo Strauss; Nihilism; Fukuyama Downloads: 906
	Allan Bloom - The Political Philosophy of Isocrates, Ph.D. dissertation - Allan Bloom Bloom's doctoral dissertation for the Committee on Social Thought, written under the supervision, I believe, of David Grene and Leo Strauss. Anastoplo considers it one of the best things Bloom ever wrote. I don't believe Bloom would agree, but it is clearly a work of surpassing insight and philosophic passion. Keywords: Allan Bloom; Political Philosophy; Isocrates; Leo Strauss; David Grene; Rhetoric; Philosophy Downloads: 236
	Defender of the Peace (Defensor Pacis) - Marsilius of Padua Defender of the Peace by Marsilius of Padua Translation 2008 With a philosophic and historical introduction by Leo Strauss. Keywords: Marsilius of Padua; Defender of the Peace; Defensor Pacis; Leo Strauss; Menandrino Downloads: 21
	Heidegger and Strauss on Nietzsche, and Modernity - Heidegger & Leo Strauss 2 essays to be downloaded separately: Heidegger's essay "Who is Nietzsche's Zarathustra?" Strauss' essay "Three Waves of Modernity", which concludes with an amazingly simple & clear discussion of the "Eternal Return", and its necessity to Nietzsche's thought. Keywords: Heidegger; Leo Strauss; Modernity; Existentialism; Machiavelli; Rousseau; Nihilism; Relativism; Zarathustra; Nietzsche; Philosophy Downloads: 1,273
	Husserl's "Crisis of the European Sciences" - Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) 2 selections from Husserl's work on the crisis of the meaning of science for life. This is quite possibly the most important work Husserl ever wrote. Husserl's phenomenological analysis ended in the radical analysis of the whole development of modern science.The sections given here indicate the fundamental problem, the historical approach to its elucidation, and the discovery of Descartes as the pivotal figure who originated the essential character of modern scientific & philosophic consciousnes... Keywords: Edmund Husserl; Phenomenology; Heidegger; Existentialism; Leo Strauss; Allan Bloom; Philosophy; Positivism; Historicism; Science Downloads: 690
	Ideas, Part I - Edmund Husserl Edmund Husserl Ideas, Volume One.(1913) Translated into English. This work is the true foundation of phenomenology as the transcendental science of pure consciousness; it becomes the foundational science of all sciences, allegedly replacing all metaphysics, or "first philosophy". Husserl struggled with and profoundly explored the Cartesian postulate of the ego, single-mindedly probing its enigmatic conundrums in an effort to give a perfectly lucid and precise account of what philosophic man is. Keywords: Husserl; Phenomenology; Philosophy; Descartes; Leo Strauss; Martin Heidegger; Allan Bloom; Existentialism Downloads: 592
	Ideas, Part II - Edmund Husserl Ideas, Part II - Edmund Husserl Edmund Husserl Ideas, Volume TWO.(1913) Translated into English. Keywords: Edmund Husserl; Husserl; Phenomenology; Philosophy; Descartes; Leo Strauss; Martin Heidegger; Allan Bloom; Existentialism Downloads: 471
	Leo Strauss - Gadamer Correspondence [Truth and Method, 1961] - Hans-Georg Gadamer, Leo Strauss Discussions regarding hermeneutics, historicism, and the possibility of philosophy between Strauss and Gadamer. The implication of Martin Heidegger's thought for these fundamental themes is taken up in relation to Gadamer's own "Wahrheit und Methode" (Truth and Method). Gadamer later addressed these issues specifically, as a result of this correspondence. Originally published in a continental journal of philosophy, it is today rare and difficult to obtain. Keywords: Gadamer; Leo Strauss; hermeneutics; Truth and Method; Martin Heidegger; Existentialism; Historicism; Philosophy Downloads: 1,180
	Leo Strauss on Alexis de Tocqueville - Leo Strauss (1899-1973) An extract from one of Strauss' class transcripts providing an interpretation of Tocqueville's place in Strauss' History of Political Philosophy. Nowhere in his published writings has Strauss spoken of Tocqueville at such length or so explicitly.This valuable statement, while not exhaustive, is subtle and complete. Included here is Strauss' short preface to "Liberalism. Ancient & Modern" which concerns the contemporary meaning of conservativism and progressivism, their common ground, and the con... Keywords: Leo Strauss; Tocqueville; Liberalism; Nietzsche; Heidegger; Natural Law; Liberal Democracy; Modernity; Nihilism; Political Philosophy; Political Theory Downloads: 860
	Leo Strauss on Nietzsche's "Beyond Good & Evil" - Leo Strauss (1899 - 1973) One of Strauss' last essays, offering a very rich and condensed interpretation of Nietzsche's thought as a whole by way of a "Note on the Plan of Beyond Good & Evil". The ambiguous place of Nature in Nietzsche's thought and the importance of the 'Eternal Return of the Same' is discussed. Strauss simply lays bare the fundamental experience at the heart of modern thought - and hence existentialism & nihilism. Keywords: Leo Strauss; Friedrich Nietzsche; Nihilism; Existentialism; Beyond Good and Evil; Philosophy; Plato; Socrates; Modernity Downloads: 799
	Leo Strauss - The Origin of Political Science - Leo Strauss (1899-1973) Unpublished lecture by Leo Strauss on the origins of political science in the thought of Plato. Strauss justifies and shows the necessity of recovering ancient thought. Keywords: Leo Strauss; Political Science; Political Theory; Ancients; Modernity; Plato; Aristotle; Cicero; Liberalism; Political Philosophy Downloads: 664
	Martin Heidegger - Der Spiegel Interview 1966 (English translation): - Martin Heidegger (interview 1966) This is the famous "Der Spiegel Interview" from 1966 in which Heidegger discusses the current crisis of nihilism and his rejection of some kind of fusion of East and West. A return to, and a resuscitation of the Western Tradition is here anticipated as essential. Heidegger also here gives some further information which may help one to think about his motives in 1933 and thereafter. It is suggested that this piece be read in conjunction with the essay "On Existentialism", by Leo Strauss, also ava... Keywords: Martin Heidegger; Nihilism; Nietzsche; Spiegel Interview 1966; Leo Strauss; Existentialism; Modernity; Technology; Philosophy; Metaphysics Downloads: 917
	Martin Heidegger: Natural Science and Metaphysics - Martin Heidegger An essay by Martin Heidegger on the dispositions underlying metaphysics (Aristotle), and modern natural science. (Newton, Descartes) The interested reader is encouraged to compare these analyses with Strauss' discussions of the spirit of modern natural science as founded by Francis Bacon. Keywords: Heidegger; Natural Science; Science; Metaphysics; Descartes; Newton; Francis Bacon; Leo Strauss; Modernity; Husserl; Historicism Downloads: 801
	Martin Heidegger - The Self Assertion of the German University 1933 - Martin Heidegger Martin Heidegger's [in]famous "Rectoratsrede" or "Rector's inaugural address", given in 1933. A careful reading of this speech is essential for anyone trying to understand the early philosophy of Heidegger, and why he eventually withdrew from politics. Leo Strauss' essays entitled "Existentialism" and "German Nihilism" should be read in conjunction with this speech. Keywords: Martin Heidegger; Leo Strauss; Historicism; Existentialism; Allan Bloom; Husserl; Philosophy; Socrates; Nietzsche; Nihilism; Nazism Downloads: 716
	Husserl: Phenomenology and the Crisis of Western Man - Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) Here are 2 essays by Edmund Husserl: 1) on the meaning of "phenomenology", as as Husserl prepared it for the Encyclopedia Britannica; and 2) on the intellectual & moral crisis facing Western Man. In addition, there is a 3rd essay by Leo Strauss on the place of Political Philosophy in Husserl's thinking entitled "Philosophy as Rigorous Science." All three essays studied together carefully will allow the dedicated & serious student to understand the nerve of Husserl's thoughts and hopes for the fu... Keywords: Edmund Husserl; Leo Strauss; Phenomenology; Martin Heidegger; existentialism; philosophy; modernity; nihilism; positivism; philosophy of science Downloads: 1,270
	Dictionary of Music - Jean-Jacques Rousseau This is the complete text of Rousseau's masterpiece on ancient, medieval, and modern music. Keywords: Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Rousseau; Music; Dictionary of Music; Enlightenment; Rameau; Leo Strauss; Allan Bloom; Plato Downloads: 1,000
	Strauss on Machiavelli - Leo Strauss Leo Strauss' introductory essay setting forth the thesis that Machiavelli is the founder of all modern thought & sentiment. The essays also contain a few essential lessons in how to read the writings of this ironic & enigmatic philosopher. Keywords: Leo Strauss; Machiavelli; The Prince; Discourses on Livy; Philosophy; Modernity; Nihilism; Liberalism; Aristotle; Hobbes; Spinoza Downloads: 574
	Strauss - What is Political Theory? - Leo Strauss Leo Strauss' unpublished lecture on the meaning of "political theory" Keywords: Leo Strauss; Political Theory; Philosophy; Political Philosophy; Liberalism; Democracy; Plato; Aristotle; Machiavelli; Nietzsche; Rousseau; Tocqueville; Montesquieu Downloads: 514
	Allan Bloom's Aristotle Lecture: the Ethics - Allan Bloom (edited and digitally remastered, 2008) Allan Bloom delivered this talk as part of the series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives" at Boston College in 1983. The series was intended to help teachers of undergraduates in their teaching of those great works that are essential to a liberal education. The series addressed the decline of liberal learning in the Universities, in America especially. This lecture presents an interpretation of Aristotle's Ethics... Keywords: Allan Bloom; Aristotle; Ethics; Plato; Socrates; Nietzsche; Apology of Socrates; Xenophon; Philosophy; Leo Strauss; Machiavelli; The Prince Downloads: 912
	Allan Bloom's Socrates Lecture 1 [of 4] - Allan Bloom (edited and digitally remastered, 2008) Allan Bloom delivered this talk as part of the series entitled "Philosophic Perspectives" at Boston College in 1983. The series was intended to help teachers of undergraduates in their teaching of those great works that are essential to a liberal education. The series addressed the decline of liberal learning in the Universities, in America especially. In this lecture Bloom discusses the founding of the idea of liberal education, and the meaning of the philosophic life expressed in the example o... Keywords: Allan Bloom; Plato; Socrates; Nietzsche; Apology of Socrates; Xenophon; Philosophy; Leo Strauss; Heidegger; Socrates' Apology; Athens; Aristophanes Downloads: 968
	Leo Strauss on Esotericism & Exotericism - Leo Strauss (1899-1973) Three important essays by Leo Strauss on the classical philosophic art of writing. Keywords: Leo Strauss; Political Science; Liberalism; Liberal Education; Education; Plato; Liberal Democracy; Spinoza; Lessing; Schleiermacher; Persecution; Art of Writing; Freedom; Liberty Downloads: 772
	Leo Strauss on Liberal Education - Leo Strauss (1899-1973) Two essential and epoch making essays on the meaning of liberal education and the intellectual crisis of modernity. The theme is the relation of liberal education to liberal democracy and the highest freedom of the mind. By Leo Strauss. Keywords: Leo Strauss; Political Science; Liberalism; Liberal Education; Education; Plato; Aristotle; Hamilton; Mill; Locke; Democracy; Liberal Democracy; Nihilism; Marx; Nietzsche; University Downloads: 704
	Strauss Essays & Comments on Machiavelli - Leo Strauss Some essays and critiques of scholarship concerning the thought of Machiavelli by Leo Strauss. Keywords: Leo Strauss; Nicolo Machiavelli; Political Philosophy; Plato; Aristotle; Rousseau; Nietzsche; The Prince; The Discourses on Livy; Livy; Modernity Downloads: 691
	Strauss on Heidegger: 5 crucial texts - Leo Strauss A group of essays written by Leo Strauss, originally published separately. These essays confront either explicitly or indirectly the radical historicism of Martin Heidegger. Strauss presents the classical idea of the philosophic life over against Heidegger's committed and spirited kind of "thinking" and his conscientious, single minded reflections on man's finitude and the abyss (i.e. Dasein, authentically experienced)... Keywords: Martin Heidegger; Leo Strauss; Historicism; Modernity; Existentialism; Allan Bloom; Husserl; Philosophy; Socrates; Nietzsche; Nihilism; Socrates' Apology; Plato; Xenophon Downloads: 2,321 Average rating: (1 review)
	Allan Bloom: Response to Fukuyama's End of History and the Last Man - Allan Bloom Allan Bloom's analysis of the incoherence of Fukuyama's popular & popularized hypothesis after the fall of the Soviet Union and collapse of the Warsaw pact. Bloom shows that Fukuyama has synthesized two notions derived from the thought of Nietzsche and Hegel which contradict one another, forming a nonsensical, not to say highly unpolitical, picture of our situation. Fukuyama seems to celebrate and deplore the victory of liberal democracy in the same breath... Keywords: Allan Bloom; Francis Fukuyama; End of History; Last Man; Alexander Kojeve; Nietzsche; Leo Strauss; Heidegger; Nihilism; Liberalism; Liberal Democracy; Hegel; Karl Marx; Capitalism; Communism; Philosophy; Raymond Aron Downloads: 867
	Leo Strauss - Contemporary Jurisprudence: a roundtable discussion - Leo Strauss (interview participant) This is an interview and discussion with a few of the most famous legal scholars, a philosopher, and a judge, concerning the problems faced by education and the law today due to the absence of any natural principles. The problem of nihilism is addressed directly. Other participants included Russel Kirk & Justice Donoso. The source was unfortunately not registered in the copy. Strauss makes some rare and candid remarks here about academia and the problem of demagoguery within liberal democracy in... Keywords: Leo Strauss; Legal theory; Natural Right; Natural Law; Liberal Democracy; Liberalism; Nihilism; Donoso; Russel Kirk; Stanlis; Warren; American Constitution; Academia; Liberal Education Downloads: 345
	Leo Strauss on Thucydides, Greek Historians, & Political History - Leo Strauss (1899-1973) Three carefully written essays on the meaning of Thucydides, Xenophon, and political history for the ancients. Keywords: Leo Strauss; Political Science; Political History; Thucydides; Xenophon; Antiquity; Ancients; Philosophy; Classics; History; Political Philosophy; Ancient Greece; Herodotus; Homer; Plato; Aristotle Downloads: 903
	Leo Strauss - Restatement on Xenophon's Heiro - Leo Strauss (1899-1973) This is the famous "Restatement" that discusses most directly the meaning of the philosophic life as opposed to all other human forms of association and activity. It was written as a "reply" to the friendly criticisms of Alexander Kojeve, who was the thinker responsible for the popular fusion of Hegel, Nietzsche, & Heidegger, popularized by Sartre's "Marxism". Included in this copy is the original final paragraph, excluded from the American edition, addressing the obscurantism and demagoguery im... Keywords: Leo Strauss; Political Science; Philosophy; Liberalism; Tyranny; Wisdom; Plato; Aristotle; Xenophon; Heiro; Democracy; Liberal Democracy; Nihilism; Martin Heidegger; Kojeve; Nietzsche; Sartre Downloads: 525
	The Closing of the American Mind - Allan Bloom RES IPSA LOQUITOR The complete text of Allan Bloom's great work on the decay of American life and the political-intellectual causes of the decline of humane learning. It is now more relevant and pertinent than when he wrote it over two decades ago. Since its publication the most prestigious universities in America have seen a continual and ever more rapid decline in what little seriousness, depth, and intellectual discipline was left in them... Keywords: Allan Bloom; Leo Strauss; Nihilism; America; Liberal Education; Heidegger; Nietzsche; Marx; Socrates; Plato; Aristotle; Rousseau; Tocqueville; Social Science; Sixties; Liberalism; Political Science; Enlightenment; Max Weber; John Rawls; Habermas; Gadamer; Rorty; Isaiah Berlin; Multiculturalism; Relativism; Existentialism Downloads: 662 Average rating: (2 reviews)