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“Every student of the history of philosophy assumes, tacitly or expressly, rightly or wrongly, that he knows what philosophy is or what a philosopher is. In attempting to transform the necessarily confused notion with which one starts one鈥檚 investigations, into a clear notion of philosophy, one is confronted sooner or later with what appears to be the most serious implication of the question 鈥渨hat a philosopher is,鈥� viz., the relation of philosophy to social or political life. This relation is adumbrated by the term 鈥淣atural Law,鈥� a term which is as indispensable as it is open to grave objections. If we follow the advice of our great medieval teachers and ask first 鈥�the philosopher鈥� for his view, we learn from him that there are things which are 鈥渂y nature just.鈥� On the basis of Aristotle, the crucial question concerns then, not the existence of a ius naturale, but the manner of its existence: 鈥渋s鈥� it in the sense in which numbers and figures 鈥渁re,鈥� or 鈥渋s鈥� it in a different sense? The question can be reduced, to begin with, to this more common form: is the ius naturale a dictate of right reason, a set of essentially rational rules?”
― Leo Strauss, Persecution and the Art of Writing