Leo Strauss: Religion and the Commonweal (1963)

[@borisshmagin8925]

I wish to listen you reading from transcript.

[@brianbob7514]

sound is fine, stop the complaints babies

[@ShareefusMaximus]

This is a little tough to listen to. I'll take another run at it in a couple of days. Thanks for the upload, though.

[@brianbob7514]

To live in groups peacefully we must hold common beliefs. Beliefs are like axioms, they are not derived rationally. A common religion is required for a community to prosper.

[@johnshaplin]

He sparked my interest in Pierre Bayle 59:47

[@zenden6564]

The audio needs to be parsed through a smart filter to clean up the recording ... Notwithstanding the Srrauss genius. 😊😊

[@johnshaplin]

David F. North’s ‘The Religion of Technology ‘ is consonant with what Strauss seems here to be driving at, in much more historical detail and better English. The revival of millennium thinking in the 12th century the expectations of which- notably by Irenaeus of Lyons- were suppressed at the Council of Ephesus in 431.