Apropos of very little, I took a seminar from Jaffa when he was at Ohio State - on Plato's The Republic. We read THE FIRST 6 PAGES - that's all. Everything we needed to know about Justice, he said, was there.
Jaffa was an avid supporter of Goldwater, of course. - Bill On 07/05/2012 8:16 AM, Jim Devine wrote: > I've been fascinated by the Straussians for a long time, partly > because one of the group of guys I hung around with in college (Yale) > was the son of a Straussian (or something like that) named Harry > Jaffa (at Claremont, I believe). My acquaintance encouraged me to > take a political theory course with a Straussian named Thomas Pangle. > So I did. Being an undergraduate, I really didn't get much out of > that course, except a sense that the professor thought there were > hidden meanings in Plato, Aristotle, etc., all the way up to > Machiavelli. > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
