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Leo Strauss on Nazism

2018· article· en· W2917400860 on OpenAlex
Grant Havers

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Bibliographic record

VenueThe Political Science Reviewer · 2018
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicSeventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
Canadian institutionsTrinity Western University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRevelationPoliticsPolitical theologyNazismPhilosophyEnlightenmentPolitical philosophyMeaning (existential)Argument (complex analysis)CommunismTheologyReligious studiesLawEpistemologyPolitical science
DOInot available

Abstract

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The political philosopher Leo Strauss undertook a systematic reexamination of the meaning of tyranny in the twentieth century. In his view, modern political science had failed to understand or even anticipate the rise of Nazism and communism. Strauss contended that the rediscovery of the two founding traditions of the West, classical Greek political philosophy (Athens) and the theology of the Bible (Jerusalem), was necessary to the project of comprehending the most murderous tyrannies that had consciously repudiated this intellectual heritage. I shall show that Strauss’s own profound insights on the Bible, as evidenced in his essays on Genesis, the Athens–Jerusalem conflict, and the weakness of Enlightenment liberalism in pre-Hitler Germany lead to the conclusion that Strauss must fall back on Jerusalem as the foundation that best understands modern tyranny. Ultimately, it is the political theology of Jerusalem, not the political philosophy of Athens, which reveals that the creation of man in the image of God paradoxically opens the door to the greatest freedom but also the most murderous forms of idolatry in politics. Admittedly, this argument is a bold one. After all, Strauss, who saw himself as a political philosopher, sharply distinguished political theology, which is based “on divine revelation,” from political philosophy, which focuses on what “is accessible to the unassisted human mind.” As I argue, however, the human mind requires the assistance of divine (biblical) revelation to make sense of Nazi tyranny.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.949
Threshold uncertainty score0.996

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.007
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.006

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.094
GPT teacher head0.327
Teacher spread0.234 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it