Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge. - Leo Strauss

For try as one may to expel nature with a hayfork, it will always come back.

When speaking of a “body of knowledge” or of “the results of research,” e.g., we tacitly assign the same cognitive status to inherited knowledge and to independently acquired knowledge. To counteract this tendency a special effort is required to transform inherited knowledge into genuine knowledge by revitalizing its original discovery, and to discriminate between the genuine and the spurious elements of what claims to be inherited knowledge.

The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.