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The influential American philosopher and political theorist Leo Strauss learned about the esoteric interpretations of Plato as a student in Germany. His Persecution and the Art of Writing extended them into the controversial view that philosophical writing generally contained concealed meanings that could be discovered by 'reading between the ...
Leo Strauss [a] (September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973) was an American scholar of political philosophy. ... Strauss's interpretation of Plato's Republic
[2] He is also well known for his interpretations of Plato and the German-American political philosopher Leo Strauss. Lampert was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He received his master's degree in 1968 and his doctorate in 1971, both from Northwestern University, with a dissertation was on “The Views of History in Nietzsche and ...
Persecution and the Art of Writing, published in 1952 by the Free Press, is a book of collected articles written by Leo Strauss. [1] The book contains five previously published essays, many of which were significantly altered by Strauss from their original publication: Introduction [2] Persecution and the Art of Writing
Leo Strauss, on the other hand, considered the dialogue to be authentic enough to write a commentary on it. [ 43 ] The tension between the first half, which extols law as the "discovery of reality," followed by the praising of the mythical figure Minos, who is typically described in tradition as a brutal despot, has been viewed by some as ...
Strauss, Leo, Leo Strauss on Plato's Symposium. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. ... Plato's Symposium: Issues in Interpretation and Reception. Center for ...
Allegorical interpretations of Plato; ... interested in Platonism in a general sense include Leo Strauss, [25] Simone ... Element in Plato and the Platonic philosophy
In Leo Strauss's interpretation, Thrasymachus and his definition of justice represent the city and its laws, and thus are in a sense opposed to Socrates and to philosophy in general. As an intellectual, however, Thrasymachus shared enough with the philosopher potentially to act to protect philosophy in the city.