Strauss sur socrate
Léo Strauss
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Interprétation
The symbol "->" is 79.
is
written instead of thèse bracketed words in the manuscript. lecture as delivered in
80. Hère
where the tape of the only Professor
Annapohs breaks
off
(cf.
note 29).
"The problem of Socrates" was delivered as a lecture on April 17 1970, on the Annapolis campus of St. John' s Collège, Professor Strauss' s daughter, Professor Jenny Clay, of the Department of Classics at the University of Viry
Accordingly,
we hâve
Strauss 's
manuscript of the remainder of the lecture. distinct 81. Beneath the Une hère there are added first, two
groups of words in the manuscript. The
other.
which begins under the word "Thing-in-itself, consists of two lines, one undemeath the The top line is "(Kant) nature *an sich' unknowable." The bottom Une appears to be "but for Heidegger and Nietzsche: no Beyond or Without." (This line, and especially the word which we hâve interpreted as "for," is difficult to read, and perhaps we are in error about it.) The second
—
has generously made available to the editors a copy of the manuscript. Also, a tape recording of the lecture in the St. John' s Collège library in Annapolis was available to the editors, as were copies of an anonymous transcripginia,
of that tape. Unfortunately, the tape is broken off after about forty-five minutes, with nearly half of the manuscript still unread, and the transcription tion group of words, which
is
found undemeath the words "philosophy of nature (Hegel)"
is
"nature as
also ends where The tape does. editors Still,
the transcription, as corrected
by the
mind
in its
Anderssein." notation above the line directs us to insert hère the foUowing
two sentences, which are written at the bottom of the page in the manuscript. "Heidegger has something to do with mysticism if mysticism is the discovery of the life of the deity