Quotes from the late philosopher and classicist. Run by @alexpriou
Sep 20, 2019 • 35 tweets • 5 min read
For Leo Strauss's 120th Birthday, here's a thread of quotes from and reflections on Benardete's "Strauss on Plato"
"What philosophy is seems to be inseparable from the question of how to read Plato."
Leo Strauss's "achievement amounts to, in my opinion, as great a recovery as that of al-Farabi, who rediscovered philosophy in the tenth century."