/lit/ - Literature

Here's a funny parallel. From the thesis:

>Strauss vs. Kojeve on nature and history
>A similar pattern holds when we look at Leo Strauss' debate and correspondence with the Hegelian Alexander Kojeve in On Tyranny. Strauss and Kojeve, beginning from an analysis on Xenophon's Hiero, talk about philosophy and the problem of tyranny. Much of the discussion turns on the position of philosophy and therefore on the problem of human nature in society and history. Let us consider briefly Kojeve’s main argument and Strauss' response to it. In fact Kojeve explicitly at one point claims that the philosopher and the tyrant are one and the same.
With some simplification, the main argument Kojeve makes is that philosophy only has history, material history, as the surety of its search for truth.