Quotes from What is Political Philosophy — Leo Strauss
1899–1973 Germany
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The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.
What is Political Philosophy (1959)
Our understanding of the thought of the past is liable to be the more adequate, the less the historian is convinced of the superiority of his own point of view, or the more he is prepared to admit the possibility that he may have to learn something, not merely about the thinkers of the past, but from them.
What is Political Philosophy (1959)
The belief that value judgments are not subject, in the last analysis, to rational control, encourages the inclination to make irresponsible assertions regarding right and wrong or good and bad. One evades discussion of serious issues by the simple device of passing them off as value problems, whereas, to say the least, many of these conflicts arose out of man’s very agreement regarding values.
What is Political Philosophy (1959)