David Corey, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About David Corey

Dr. David Corey is the Director of Baylor in Washington, D.C., a Professor of Political Science in the Honors Program, and an Affiliated Professor in the Philosophy Department and the Political Science Department. His books include The Just War Tradition (ISI) and The Sophists in Plato’s Dialogues (SUNY).

Eric Voegelin, Leo Strauss, & American Conservatism

By David Corey|2024-06-26T19:34:16-05:00June 26th, 2024|Categories: Conservatism, Eric Voegelin, Featured, Leo Strauss, Timeless Essays|

Conservatives are people who defend certain traditional goods, because they know they’re worth defending. Political philosophy, by contrast, is animated by concerns quite different from political battles or external goods. It’s fundamentally a quest for insight, not influence. Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss were essentially philosophers, not conservatives. For more than fifty years, American conservatives [...]

Can Socrates Change Your Life?

By David Corey|2022-10-02T20:18:09-05:00October 2nd, 2022|Categories: Christianity, Featured, Philosophy, Plato, Politics, Socrates, Timeless Essays, Truth, Virtue|

If Socrates reveals anything about the moral life, it is how uncertain and unstable it is without grounding in knowledge of the Good; and yet he confesses that such grounding is beyond his reach, beyond the reach of human reason itself to attain. In this way Socrates reveals the genuine problem of moral relativity that [...]