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by Fede_V 4293 days ago
Leo Strauss was an influential neoconservative philosopher who thought that a lot of key classical texts had an 'obvious' reading which was propaganda for the masses, and a 'secret' reading which only the adepts could decipher. He emphasized this especially to Greek texts from Plato.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Strauss#Strauss_on_reading