Laurence Lampert

Laurence Lampert (born 1941) is a Canadian philosopher and leading scholar in the field of Nietzsche studies. He was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Leo Strauss and Nietzsche (1996)

 * Nietzsche’s arrival in modern philosophy signaled an unprecedented necessity: “probity”, “intellectual conscience”, Enlightenment radicalized by a new bravery that scorns any comforts like God.
 * p. 5


 * How can historicism consistently exempt itself from its own verdict that all human thought is historical?
 * p. 6


 * Strauss’ whole study indicates that noble nature as Nietzsche presents it—no, embodies it—replaces divine nature as Plato presents it.
 * p. 15


 * The way of Socrates had shown itself to be a limited way because it concerned itself “only with the scientific investigation of justice and the virtues,” and it had shown itself to be an intransigent way because it chose “non-conformity and death.” Plato corrected the way of Socrates—he removed the limitation and tempered its intransigence.
 * p. 16-17


 * Nietzsche discovered the clue to esotericism early … “The fact of the pious fraud.”
 * p. 20