Yet another religious cult raided

[kandrathe]

Rand, perhaps?

*ducks*

I was thinking Rand as well. But, then I shrugged having listed half my philosophy section on the shelf.

Strauss a genius? Hmmm. Not convinced. A serious student of the overlap of politics and philosophy, sure.

I think his work on relativism leading to nihilism, both brutal and hedonistic qualifies.

I find the reductionist charge that so and so is "a Straussian" or "a disciple of Leo Strauss" an overused attack on any number of political personalities. It's sorta like "you're a commie" or "you're a Nazi" as a slam, an attempt to pigeonhole someone you disagree with into some abyss of evil and vileness.

Yup. If you've read Strauss you must be a Neocon, right? If you've read Marx and Engels you must be a socialist, and if you've read Nietzsche you must be a Nazi. If you've read "Catcher in the Rye" you must be a serial killer.

If you read period, there must be something wrong with you!