Hello, everyone. I'm Stephen West. This is philosophize this.

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Today's episode is on the work of Leo Strauss.

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So picking up from where we left off last episode,

there's a strong contingency of philosophers living in the early 20th century

that have grown increasingly dissatisfied with rationality as a guide for arriving at certainty about things.

They feel this way for a number of different reasons,

but it should be emphasized that their critique of rationality is not the only side of the story here.

Like any good philosophical critique, sometimes questioning something can't offer a sense of clarity for any real length of time.

Sometimes when the critique is good enough, when we ask questions, it just leads us to more questions.

This was definitely the case in the early 20th century.

You know, speaking of strong contingencies,

there's also got to be a strong contingency of people listening to the last episode of the show,

you know, living as the beneficiaries of the last hundred years of human thought,

who found themselves a little frustrated with the whole critique of rational analysis overall.

What I mean is there must be some people out there who are willing to ask the extremely valid question,

what are we even supposed to do within you this information?

This person might say, look, I hear all your criticisms of rationality.

Okay.

And let's say for the sake of the conversation, let's say everything you have to say is some amazing point that needs to be taken into consideration.

Well, don't we still need to have some working arrangement with the reality we live in?

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