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Transcripts For CSPAN2 Book Discussion 20141221

Disagreements with the view ultimately to thinking for ourselves about what are the or the most reasonable ans to the fundamental questions and it seems to me that strauss does explicitly actually indicate that this is exactly what he is doing. That its a new kind of philosophical dialogue he is constructing, and i just want to read you a passage from his liberalism and ancient and modern, what is liberal education. He says the greatest minds utter monologues. We must transform their monologues into a dialogue. Theyre sid by side into it together. The greatest minds utter monologues even when they write dialogues. When we look at the platonic dialogues we observe that there is never a dialogue among minds of the highest order. All platonic dialogues are dialogues between a superior man and men inferior to him. Plato apparently felt one could not write a dialogue between two men of the highest order. We must then do something which the greatest minds were unable to do. Since the greates ....

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