3:771). If this is the divine, one might choose irreligion and compassion.

When Aristotle writes of the beauties of contemplation in the Nicomachean Ethics, perhaps he is thinking of this kind of state.But at the least, he was more restrained and had a rather different image of nature (things unfolding to their potential or goal).Wherever one is fortunate enough to get in these matters, one is still just a human being, one among others.As the Greeks thought, it is off one’s rocker with resentment and hubris to quite, even in imagining, “become a god.”

Don also mentions Stanley Rosen, Strauss’s first student, regarded skeptically by other Straussians, who is more independent of Strauss than most – a modern – and who says Kojeve, whom he knew well,as well as Strauss,a war before the war started in the history of the world as Noam Chomsky put it, such protest inspires people in many countries; the good of peace or at least blocking Imperial aggression is international. Those aspirations were also visible in the movements against World War I and World War II, but in this case, the peace movement had no socialist or communist international to facilitate the organizing. It is thus a movement against aggression even more sharply from the grassroots. This remarkable democratic movement from below would be the kind of thing that social "science," if it were not imaginatively imprisoned by the status quo, as well as political theory, would take up.

This talk is related to two previous posts "A Tale of 'Powerful Pacifists': Empire