STANLEY ROSEN'S CRITIQUE OF LEO STRAUSS

摘要

For Rosen, philosophy requires the noetic grasp of pure form, which is apprehended in the logoi.9 It is imperative that logoi here be understood not as "speeches" in any sense that might have the taint of opinion but as the enduring ratios of the beings of our common perception which endow those beings with identity and unity through the fluctuating change of genesis.n This implies that the natural whole is beneficent and reliable. [...] Strauss's procedure of preparing the way to philosophy by means of historical studies depends on there being a continuity between opinion now, as it has been shaped by the philosophical project of modernity, and the currents of opinion within which early modern, medieval, and ancient philosophers lived and thought.