Laurence Lampert

Laurence Lampert in 2015

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.

Quotes

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

External links

• nietzschecircle.com, Interview of Prof. Lampert by Daniel Blue, 'The Nietzsche Circle' (2008)