Leo Strauss and Relativism: the Critique
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Alan Mittleman
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Article
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1999
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Strauss criticizes Max Weber as an historicist whose relativism mars the ethical quality of his work. Strauss suggests that Weber escapes this presumptive relativism by a religious route, namely, by grounding values in revelation and by professing to await another revelation which would save us from