[KC Burke]

A good article on Strauss is HERE. It also deals with the author's opinion of where in importance in Strauss's thinking Machiavelli stood.

A good trade paperback available a fairly reasonible cost is the History of Political Philosophy editied by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey. It is a mammoth overview of just about every philospher that was of political importance.

[nicollo]

Thanks for the link to the article on Strauss. I'm not so sure I like what I read. Seems to me that Strauss' complaint about Machiavelli ought better have been laid upon Aristotle. I just don't know enough about it. Besides, like Niccolo, I like Livy and his judgemental histories. I get the same from Burke.

I don't need philosophy to back my politics. Strauss gave it, and I suppose Burke has been labeled a philosopher. I think that's a wrong. Burke may have spoken a philosophy, but he more exactly spoke a political reality. The great thing about Burke is that he doesn't need explaining.

But I'm just simplistic. I so hate to taint my politics with meaning.