The Stakes: Defending Leo Strauss ft. Michael Millerman
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2022
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
In this edition of The Stakes, Michael Anton, lecturer in politics and research fellow at Hillsdale College’s Kirby Center, and a Claremont senior fellow, is joined by Michael Millerman of the Millerman School. The two discuss the teachings of the Claremont Institute's ideological lodestar, Leo Strauss. They also discuss how and to what extent Strauss' teachings, and those of other twentieth century German philosophers, remain relevant today in our crumbling republic despite an active attempt by elites to vilify them. Listeners who would like to hear even more about German philosophers can take advantage of an exclusive 25% discount to the Millerman School by using the code "STAKES" at signup!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is Michael Anton. It's been a while since I've been with you. I am a lecturer |
| 0:29.8 | in politics and research fellow at Hillsdale College's Washington DC campus and also a senior |
| 0:35.9 | fellow at the Claremont Institute and an occasional ad hoc no schedule podcaster for the Claremont |
| 0:41.8 | Institute with occasional ad hoc guests, one of whom is returning to his second appearance with me |
| 0:50.0 | and that is Professor Michael Millerman of the Millerman School of which I am a happy student |
| 0:54.6 | having taken only one course so far but looking forward to more. It was a refresher for me |
| 0:59.7 | on Plato's Republic highly recommended. There are other courses including books that I haven't read |
| 1:04.6 | or books that I have read but did not understand including Being in Time by Martin Heidegger which I |
| 1:10.5 | think we will discuss in what is coming. So the last time Michael and I were on we discussed |
| 1:16.6 | at some length Leo Strauss's great thoughts on Mikey Valley which I personally consider Strauss' |
| 1:22.1 | greatest work. It's certainly my favorite of Strauss' great works. We wanted to talk more broadly, |
| 1:27.8 | I did anyway about Strauss this time and I was prompted by something that Michael wrote. It's |
| 1:34.5 | fairly short small essay on why early 20th century German philosophers including Strauss and Heidegger |
| 1:41.6 | are still relevant to the conversation today. It's also a meditation and argument as to why |
| 1:49.1 | as distinct and maybe separate philosophy and politics seem to be. They are in fact inseparable. |
| 1:56.8 | You can't really have good or sound politics without philosophy. He makes this argument. I've |
| 2:01.6 | always believed that for the simple reason that to do anything in politics you have to know what to |
| 2:07.5 | do or you have to have some idea of what to do which means you have to have some idea of the nature |
| 2:12.6 | of reality better and worse right and wrong and you can't have that without philosophy or at least |
| 2:18.0 | without an implicit philosophy. So even when acting in politics if you think you're not being |
| 2:22.5 | philosophic there is some unthought through presupposition that you're acting on that was informed |
| 2:28.7 | by philosophy depending on how far back you want to go and I also wanted to raise the following |
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