The Great Books Might Be True
On Leo Strauss's Critique of Academia and What Comes Next
One of Leo Strauss’s core points is that we should read Great Books not because they are historically interesting, or politically useful, and not because they are good brain teasers, but because they might be true. They might know something we don’t.
Does it help to know something about the historical context of the book? Sure. But does saying a bunch of…
Keep reading with a 7-day free trial
Subscribe to What Is Called Thinking? to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.