“Nietzsche’s arrival in modern philosophy signaled an unprecedented necessity: “probity”, “intellectual conscience”, Enlightenment radicalized by a new bravery that scorns any comforts like God.”

—  Laurence Lampert

Source: Leo Strauss and Nietzsche (1996), p. 5

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