Strauss’s “Progress or Return?”

August 14, 2014 | Read online: https://tikvahfund.org/library/strausss-progress-or-return/

Possibly Leo Strauss’s greatest essay, “Progress or Return?” is crucial to understanding Strauss’s political thought, especially his famed reason/revelation distinction. In this clip, Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution summarizes the entire argument of the essay in four short propositions.

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