Arthur Melzer April 4, 2020 (Episode 161)
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Chapter 1 : What is Esoteric Writing?
Arthur Melzer defends the notion that philosophers of the past concealed elements of their thought through a careful method of writing.
00:15 - 26:35 -
Chapter 2 : Why Write Esoterically?
Melzer discloses the various motives that led political philosophers of the past to employ exoteric and esoteric writing.
26:35 - 54:03 -
Chapter 3 : A Lost Tradition
Why did the practice of esoteric writing fall out of favor among philosophers from the nineteenth century onward? Melzer and Kristol discuss.
54:03 - 1:25:45