Xenophon's Commentary Collection -- On Tyranny

Author: Liu Xiaofeng
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Ancient classics believed that due to human weakness or dependence, universal happiness is impossible, and thus, they never dreamed of a completed history. With their spiritual eyes, they saw a happy society, a society where human nature has the highest possibility. However, since they also saw how limited human power is, they believed that the realization of the best regime depended on luck. Modern people, however, are not satisfied with this utopia; they try to ensure the realization of the best social order. To succeed, or rather, to convince themselves that they can succeed, they must lower human goals: replacing moral virtue with universal recognition, and replacing happiness with the satisfaction obtained from universal recognition. — The debate between Strauss is very unusual. Usually, in cases of such deep and intense, there are rarely serious discussions, but both sides' desire to understand the issue is stronger than their desire to their positions. This is why they so thoroughly elucidated their propositions. — Gourevitch/Roz