Introduction to Political Philosophy, winter 1965

Sessions 1-9 of this transcript have been published by the University of Chicago Press as part of its Leo Strauss Transcript Series. See https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo28394946.html

“Introduction to Political Philosophy” has sixteen sessions with audio files for nine sessions.

The audiofiles correspond to the sessions as follows: Audio 1/session 1 (January 6); audio 2/session 2 (Jan. 11); audio 3/session 3 (Jan. 13); audio 4/session 4 (Jan. 18); audio 5/session 5 (Jan. 20); audio 6/session 7, Jan. 27); audio 7/session 8, Feb 1; audio 8/session 9 (Feb. 3); audio 9/session 10 (n. d.). The audiofile for session 6 did not survive.

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