Note on the Plan of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil

by Leo Strauss

Strauss wrote that Friedrich Nietzsche was the first philosopher to properly understand relativism, an idea grounded in a general acceptance of Hegelian historicism. Heidegger, in Strauss' view, sanitized and politicized Nietzsche, whereas Nietzsche believed "our own principles, including the belief in progress, will become as relative as all earlier principles had shown themselves to be" and "the only way out seems to be...that one voluntarily choose life-giving delusion instead of deadly truth, that one fabricate a myth". Leo Strauss (1899 – 1973) was a German-American political philosopher and classicist who specialized in classical political philosophy. He was born in Germany to Jewish parents and later emigrated to the United States. He spent most of his career as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he taught several generations of students and published fifteen books.

Genres: Philosophy

28 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 29, 2012

About the author

Leo Strauss was a 20th century German-American scholar of political philosophy. Born in Germany to Jewish parents, Strauss later emigrated from Germany to the United States. He spent much of his career as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he taught several generations of students and published fifteen books.
Trained in the neo-Kantian tradition with Ernst Cassirer and immersed in the work of the phenomenologists Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, Strauss authored books on Baruch Spinoza and Thomas Hobbes, and articles on Maimonides and Al-Farabi. In the late 1930s, his research focused on the texts of Plato and Aristotle, retracing their interpretation through medieval Islamic and Jewish philosophy, and encouraging the application of those ideas to contemporary political theory.

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Gerçekten açıklayıcılığın en yüksek hali. Büyülenmemek elde değil, bir anda elinizden alıp götürüyor bütün şüpheleri ve yenileri ile buluşturuyor Strauss. Yeni şüphelerle buluşturuyor evet ama inanın çok daha “iyileri” ile. En azından Nietzsche’nin iyi tabirinde.
Leo ve öğrencilerinin soru cevapları ve hemen ardından gelen Nietzsche’nin pasajları ile ayrı bir konuma getiriyor kişiyi.

Bana kalırsa Leo Strauss’un ifadesiyle, “ Nietzsche’nin minik belalısı Platon’un “ zıtlıkları bilgilerin kısa bir kontrolü. 🍀