hobbs locke and mill just to make sure there were no stray mentions of virtues here and there. and that i could establish that the liberal tradition was not only repudiated the virtues that was intrinsically incapable of giving an account. i started with hobbs who seemed to me the easiest case. maybe not a liberal a proto-liberal. he talks about inalienable rights and does a government is there to protect them but he was also known as the of sounds very pretty at a political theory based on accrued mechanistic understanding of nature and the hedonistic view of humanity. so course he had no room for virtue. if i began reading love i send and right there in the introduction thought maybe i had a misbegotten copy of it but there in the introduction the first page hobbs says all serious study of politics is based on the syncretic maxim and to engage in political science one have to study ones own passion and compare those passions to the passions of others and reason comes to passion. if it sounds mechanistic and sound connected to what i understood to be a political science that a

those waves were the first wave was modern natural rights of philosophy inaugurated by thomas hobbs, john locke and would include machiavelli and. this is the philosophy of social contract theory because it inspired our founding fathers philosophy that we would recognize as a liberal. the second wave was a response to the first wave and strauss is telling it arose as a challenge to the first way but also from the first wave. it was a modification of the social contract. if corsets the preeminent example a way of retelling the story to achieve a certain different and in a particular progress and this is what makes mill -- mill straddles the two waves. he appeals to classic liberalism put in the name of progress. he has become a transitional figure in the third wave of modernity and the tail end of some q&a talking about nietzsche so here he is again but the third wave of modernity as a critique of the first three waves that arises from the logic of those first two waves. you have these three successive breaking waves of philosophy which in strauss's view ended up having corresponding regimes and

those waves were the first wave was modern natural rights of philosophy inaugurated by thomas hobbs, john locke and would include machiavelli and. this is the philosophy of social contract theory because it inspired our founding fathers philosophy that we would recognize as a liberal. the second wave was a response to the first wave and strauss is telling it arose as a challenge to the first way but also from the first wave. it was a modification of the social contract. if corsets the preeminent example a way of retelling the story to achieve a certain different and in a particular progress and this is what makes mill -- mill straddles the two waves. he appeals to classic liberalism put in the name of progress. he has become a transitional figure in the third wave of modernity and the tail end of some q&a talking about nietzsche so here he is again but the third wave of modernity as a critique of the first three waves that arises from the logic of those first two waves. you have these three successive breaking waves of philosophy which in strauss's view ended up having corresponding regimes and