Post by galvez on Jan 12, 2004 15:39:39 GMT -5
antiwar.com/justin/index.php?articleid=1563
Excerpt:
"The influence of Leo Strauss on leading figures within this administration, and certainly on the neoconservative movement, is not a matter of opinion: it is a matter of public record, Boot's denials to the contrary notwithstanding. Boot claims that Strauss did not advocate lying to the public, but the import of his philosophy – his separation of 'esoteric' and 'exoteric' knowledge, with the former reserved for the intellectual elite – is clear."
Excerpt:
"The influence of Leo Strauss on leading figures within this administration, and certainly on the neoconservative movement, is not a matter of opinion: it is a matter of public record, Boot's denials to the contrary notwithstanding. Boot claims that Strauss did not advocate lying to the public, but the import of his philosophy – his separation of 'esoteric' and 'exoteric' knowledge, with the former reserved for the intellectual elite – is clear."