Does the right hate Spinoza? Or why do people accuse them of hating Spinoza? Somebody please explain this to me
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Good point though regarding contemporary discussion people should have come to terms with that by now
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Leo Strauss makes the case that Spinoza, far from "the last of the medievals," was one of the first moderns. Ancient pol-phil saw political communities as engines for human flourishing, but moderns are less optimistic about our natural goodness so they assume we're all selfish
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…unfortunately his remarks on Spinoza are few and awfully cryptic. Whether or not he agreed with Spinoza philosophically, his categorization of him as a "modern" has probably convinced many US trad-leaning theorists that Spinoza's insights are limited (Strauss preferred Plato)
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