The Leo Strauss transcript project
Editor's introduction: Strauss, Nietzsche, and the history of political philosophy
Editorial headnote
Introduction: Nietzsche's philosophy, existentialism, and the problem of our age
Restoring nature as ethical principle: Zarathustra, prologue
The creative self: Zarathustra, part 1, 1-8
The true individual as the highest goal: Zarathustra, part 1, 9-15
Postulated nature and final truth: Zarathustra, part 1, 16-22
Truth, interpretation, and intelligibility: Zarathustra, part 2, 1-12
Will to power and self-overcoming: Zarathustra, part 2, 15-20
Summary and review: fusing Plato and the creative self
Greek philosophy and the Bible; nature and history: Zarathustra, part 2, 20-22
Eternal recurrence: Zarathustra, part 2, 21; part 3, 1-13
Survey: Nietzsche and political philosophy
The goodness of the whole, Socratic and Heideggerian critiques: Zarathustra, part 4-12
Creative contemplation: Zarathustra, part 3, 13
Restoring the sacred and the final question: Zarathustra, part 4.