Strauss and His Critics

12.30-4.00pm | Saturday, April 11
Elm Library, 31 Whitney Avenue

A reading of Strauss’ seminal Natural Right and History, as well as an examination of current debates over his philosophical project.

This seminar will be led by Gregory Collins and Peter Wicks.

Schedule
4.00-5.15 The Argument of Natural Right and History
5.15-5.30 Break
5.30-6.30 Contemporary Debates Over Strauss’s Project
6.30-7.30 Dinner

This event is open to current Yale students.

Co-sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

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History teaches us that a given view has been abandoned in favor of another by all men, or by all competent men, or perhaps by only the most vocal men; it does not teach us whether the change was sound or whether the rejected view deserved to be rejected.

—Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History