Strauss as a Philosophical Thinker

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Excerpt from Strauss as a Philosophical Thinker: A Review of His Book the Old Faith Natural, Religion moves toward the proof how natural is the supernatural. For nature in the narrower sense, is in her spring, Supernatural. To this point all natural science constantly ad vances. The more problems natural science settles the more it raises, the more it diminishes the sphere in which the speculation Of the past found its range, the more does it enlarge the sphere of the future speculation. Ours is at once the age of the supremest af¿uence in ques tions solved, and Of the most pressing poverty in questions opened and unanswered. A ques tion settled is a question planted, and green, young questions spring all around it. The more we know of Nature, the more cogent becomes the necessity Of the Supernatural. On the other hand, the Supernatural is within Nature, in Nature's broader sense. In this sense Nature is identical with the real. Everything is Nature that is not non-nature, everything is natural that is not unnatural. The Supernatural is not to be construed as the contranatural, but as the natural itself in its supremest sphere, and God and His directest works are supernatural because they are by pre-eminence natural. In this sense Nature is not a conception embraced in the con. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.