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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6. Friendship, in the Straussian model, is the key philosophic relationship, much moreso than any family relationship.
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7. For philosophy to occur, the young must leave their family and seek the company of the philosopher. See opening of Plato's Republic.
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8. The family is the enemy of philosophy. Must be tolerated for prudential reasons but real relationship is friends/philosphers
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9. To a startling degree Strauss replicated this platonic model in midcentury America.
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10. Did sex occur? Not always or even often but still, it was a homosocial milieu that verged on the homoerotic.
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11. Strauss' teaching about esoteric fit nicely with a cover sexual politics. Esoteric = the closet. Exoteric = being outed.
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12. Let's get a bunch of young guys together, get them reading the Greeks, tell them their friendships are more important than family.
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13. The scandal of Allan Bloom was that although he was closeted, there were enough rumors to compromise the whole enterprise.
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14. Consider the fractured friendship between Allan Bloom and Harry Jaffa.
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15. Bloom and Jaffa collaborated on a book called Shakespeare's Politics, dedicated "to our teacher Leo Strauss"
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