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I sort of see what u mean about personalities vs. arguments, but his essay on Republic is v v intricately argued
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Even if he falls into the sin of seeing character more than logic, he's head & shoulders above 'kwa-scholar avg
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if i recall, his method there as with the symposium is a 'close reading' in imitation of his master Strauss.
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yet he contextualizes more freely than strauss, whose works are usually short and mostly had some obvious thesis
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i don't know if bloom had any aim other than illustrating 'the benign immorality of philosophy'
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it's kind of difficult to explain what the point of straussian essays, since they are esoteric in the esoteric sense
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strauss's letters to Loewith, Kojeve, J. Klein + his seminar transcriptions are more revealing of his true intentions
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