A Product of Your Time?
(How) Can We Transcend Our Historical Context?
Leo Strauss says, in Persecution and the Art of Writing, that philosophers have more in common with each other than they have with other members of their society or culture, even when they disagree fundamentally about the most basic questions.
Philosophers, in contrast to everyone else, are time-travelers, or time-transcenders.
Do you agree? Would you gra…
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