In the past couple of essays, I have looked at Leo Strauss and Harvey Mansfield as teachers in a climate of positivism, relativism, and academic mediocrity. In this essay, I will explore Stanley Rosen, as described by Nalin Ranasinghe in Teaching in an Age of Ideology
"noble pessimism" sounds fitting for some Straussians, but for Strauss himself? Pessimism with respect to the good life? With respect to a (re)discovery of a Harmony of the true, the beautiful and the good? Pessimism as...otherworldliness?
"noble pessimism" sounds fitting for some Straussians, but for Strauss himself? Pessimism with respect to the good life? With respect to a (re)discovery of a Harmony of the true, the beautiful and the good? Pessimism as...otherworldliness?