“In order to see the relation between philosophy as rigorous science and the alternative to it clearly, one must look at the political conflict between the two antagonists, i. e. at the essential character of that conflict.”

—  Leo Strauss

Philosophy as Rigorous Science and Political Philosophy (1971)

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