By Leo Strauss, Victor Gourevitch (Ed.), Michael S. Roth (Ed.)
"Through [Strauss's] interpretation Xenophon seems to us as now not the slightly uninteresting and flat writer we all know, yet as a super and refined author, an unique and profound philosopher. what's extra, in examining this forgotten discussion, Strauss lays naked nice ethical and political difficulties which are nonetheless ours." --Alexandre Kojève, Critique
"On Tyranny is a fancy and stimulating e-book with its 'parallel discussion' made the entire extra extraordinary considering that either contributors take such strange, hugely provocative positions, and so strength readers to stand colossal difficulties in what are frequently completely strange, even stunning ways." --Robert Pippin, History and Theory
"Every political scientist who attempts to disentangle himself from the modern confusion over the issues of tyranny can be a lot indebted to this research and necessarily use it as a beginning point."--Eric Voegelin, The overview of Politics
Leo Strauss (1899-1973) was once the Robert Maynard Hutchins distinct provider Professor of Political technology on the college of Chicago.
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He thus assigns Hiero the position of a man who is, in a certain respect, wiser, a greater authority than he is himself. Hiero, fully aware of how wise Simonides is, has not the slightest notion as to what sort of thing he could know better than a man of Simonides' wisdom. Simonides explains to him that since he, Hiero, was born a private man and is now a tyrant, he is, on the basis of his experience of both conditions, likely to know better than Simonides in what way the life of a tyrant and that ofprivate men differ with regard to human enjoyments and pains.
5) But in this too it is the reverse for the tyrants. For instead of avenging them, the cities magnif kenLy honor the tyran nicide; and instead of excluding the killer from sacred rites, as they do the murderers of private men, the cities erect in their temples statues of those who have committed such an act. (6) "And if you think that because the tyrant has more posses sions than private men he gets more pleasure from them, this is not the case either, Simonides. But just a-s athletes do not enjoy proving stronger than private men, but are annoyed when they prove weaker than their opponents, so the tyrant gets no pleasure when he evidently has more than private men, but suffers pain when he has less than other tyrants.
5 (1) "I will tell you of another harsh aff liction, Simonides, which the tyrants have. For although they are acquainted with the decent, the wise, and the just, no less than private men [the tyrants] fear rather than admire them. They fear the brave because they might dare some thing for the sake of freedom; the wise; because they might contrive something; and the just, because the multitude might desire to be ruled by them. ent, and the slavish? The unjust are trusted because they are afraid, just as the tyrants are, that some day the cities, becoming free, will become their masters.