The Case For Opacity

C.S. Lewis and the Limits of Reason

Yesterday, I wrote about Maimonides’s claim that the philosophical project is, or can be, a spiritual one. Yet Maimonides was not only a philosopher; he was also someone who, according to Leo Strauss, believed in the central importance of the Law. Philosophy without law can discover truth, but it may be ethereal, anti-social, unmoored, if it tries to bu…