• Persecution and the Art of Writing, published in 1952 by the Free Press, is a book of collected articles written by Leo Strauss. The book contains five...
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  • Leo Strauss (category Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany)
    the essay, Persecution and the Art of Writing, Strauss posits that information needs to be kept secret from the masses by "writing between the lines". However...
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    the reader towards an understanding of problems the author thought about with utmost seriousness. Strauss thus, in Persecution and the Art of Writing...
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  • the use of coded language to address voters' interests, whilst shielding them from negative political blowback if overtly addressed. Persecution and the...
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    to the "ordinary" intellect. In Persecution and the Art of Writing (1952), he proposes that some philosophers write esoterically to avert persecution by...
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    Maimonides (redirect from The Rambam)
    Study the Guide: The Guide of the Perplexed – Maimonides (in Arabic). Vol. 1. University of Chicago Press. Strauss L (1988). Persecution and the Art of Writing...
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    Emperors Decius (r. 249–251) and Trebonianus Gallus (r. 251–253). The Decian persecution was particularly extensive. The persecution of Emperor Valerian (r. 253–260)...
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    Press, 1997. Strauss, Leo. Persecution and the Art of Writing. Glencoe, Illinois: Free Press, 1952. Reprint. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. _____ch...
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    learned about the esoteric interpretations of Plato as a student in Germany. His Persecution and the Art of Writing extended them into the controversial...
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  • Lewis, Mere Christianity (1952) Leo Strauss, Persecution and the Art of Writing (1952) Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace (1952) March 11 - Douglas Adams (died...
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  • historical and ongoing religious persecution and systematic violence, in the form of forced conversions, documented massacres, genocides, demolition and desecration...
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    The Diocletianic or Great Persecution was the last and most severe persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire. In 303, the emperors Diocletian, Maximian...
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  • Permission (philosophy) Perpetual peace Persaeus Persecution Persecution and the Art of Writing Persecution of philosophers Persian Letters Persian Psalms...
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    The persecution of Christians can be historically traced from the first century of the Christian era to the present day. Christian missionaries and converts...
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    Leo, Persecution and the Art of Writing University of Chicago Press, reprint edition, 1988. Peter Minowitz, Straussophobia: Defending Leo Strauss and Straussians...
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    Хрватској) was the systematic persecution and extermination of Serbs committed during World War II by the fascist Ustaše regime in the Nazi German puppet...
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    in Strauss's own "Persecution in the Art of Writing". ISBN 978-0226227887 Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Guide for the Perplexed. Original...
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    religious persecution, mass rape, and ethnic cleansing. The 19th century saw the rise of nationalism in the Balkans coincide with the decline of Ottoman...
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    The persecution of Muslims has been recorded throughout the history of Islam, beginning with its founding by Muhammad in the 7th century. In the early...
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    Persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire began during the reign of Constantine the Great (r. 306–337) in the military colony of Aelia Capitolina...
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    The persecution of Copts and discrimination against Coptic Orthodox Christians are historic and widespread issues in Egypt. Their treatment is indicative...
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    subjected to persecution and genocide by the Qing dynasty government. Arthur A. Hansen wrote: "In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, while the Hmong lived...
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  • – Perpetual peace – Persecution and the Art of Writing – Persian Letters – Persian Psalms – Phaedo – Phaedrus – Phenomenology of Perception – Philebus...
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  • understood and applied differently in different ages, and have led to practices of both persecution and toleration. Early Christian thought established Christian...
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  • Many adherents of Buddhism have experienced religious persecution because of their adherence to the Buddhist practice, including unwarranted arrests, imprisonment...
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    the persecution of the Renovationist sect began to reach the proportions of the persecution of the old Orthodox church. During the purges of 1937 and...
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  • The arts in the Philippines reflect a range of artistic influences on the country's culture, including indigenous art. Philippine art consists of two...
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    Cyprus (redirect from Art history of Cyprus)
    crypto-Christians, including the Linobambaki, a crypto-Catholic community that arose due to religious persecution of the Catholic community by the Ottoman authorities;...
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    narrative of travail and triumph, persecution and exile. New York: Doubleday. p. 232. Stannard, David E. (1993). American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest...
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    Coptic art is the Christian art of the Byzantine-Greco-Roman Egypt and of Coptic Christian Churches. Coptic art is best known for its wall-paintings, textiles...
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