1. Trigger warning. I'm starting a twitter-essay on the sexual politics of Leo Strauss.
3. The model for the student/teacher relationship in Strauss is of course in the ancients: Socrates and Alcibiades
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4. Exchange between teacher & student: teacher (older man) offers wisdom, student in return offers pleasure of company with beautiful youth
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5. Greek homosexuality, as Foucualt rightly taught us, had different social dynamic than modern one. Mentoring relationship was key.
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