[adamsjas]

Strauss cannot convince Garrett. Indeed, he could not convince himself. Strauss knew perfectly well that philosophy could not refute relativism ("radical historicism"), hence his helplessness before Heidegger's parlour tricks. Strauss gave up on Nietzsche largely because Heidegger offered a sharper critique of rationalism. (Garrett's interpretation of Nietzsche as a philosemite seems idiosyncratic, to say the least, considering that Nietzsche denounced his erstwhile idol Wagner as a Jew after Wagner made peace with Christianity in Parsifal.)

Everytime I see a paragrapth like that I know this is someone with nothing to say and all day to say it.

[Darkwolf377]

There's quite a lot here to say. Not everything can be reduced to bullet points, and this guy offers a lot to chew on, for those willing to think about it and not have it predigested for them.

[starbase]

Socrates (like Strauss) was wrong. It is not the unexamined life that is not worth living, but the life defined by mere animal existence.

Well he starts off picking a fight with my favorite mentor. No doubt Socrates would tell him mere animal existence is the unexamined life (no doubt due to animal's inability to perform said examining, unlike we humans who can examine, therefore making the unexamined life beneath us, i.e. his original point!)

He might be grasping for too many lofty references, a la your "all day to say it".