Harvey Mansfield Additional Footage March 27, 2014
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Chapter 1 : Encountering Leo Strauss
Recollections of the great teacher and philosopher (1899 – 1973).
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Chapter 2 : Strauss on Burke and Machiavelli
What insights did Strauss offer into great modern thinkers?
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Chapter 3 : Great Contemporaries
Mansfield recalls some of his friends including Allan Bloom, Ernest Fortin, and Seth Benardete.
24:52 - 38:06 -
Chapter 4 : The American Founding and Harry Jaffa
The ideas and career of the Lincoln scholar, Harry V. Jaffa.
38:06 - 53:30 -
Chapter 5 : America's Constitutional Soul
How the Constitution has shaped and ennobled American life.
53:30 - 1:03:16 -
Chapter 6 : The Decline of Liberalism
How a once distinguished political movement has fallen into such bad intellectual shape.
1:03:16 - 1:08:30