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Strauss on "intellectual courage"

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Leo Strauss
Jan 27, 2025
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When Strauss taught the Nicomachean Ethics at Claremont in the spring of 1968 and had finished covering the first two moral virtues, a student criticized Aristotle for doing injustice to the phenomena by not speaking of intellectual moderation and especially of intellectual courage.

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