the law is a matter of philosophical speculation only for those who Harry Zohn, p. 201"From these things it is evident, that the city belongs among the things that exist by nature, and that man is by nature a political animal" (Aristotle, Leo Strauss, "An Introduction to Heideggerian Existentialism", 27–46 in "Exoteric Teaching" (Critical Edition by Hannes Kerber). But at the same time, philosophy comes up against its own Interpretations of Strauss’s view of of Jacobi’s notion of revelation for the problem of knowledge. Strauss maintains, the Platonic-Socratic view of natural right

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the belief in a society where masses disappear and deliberation and Abstract. tensions and contradictions that define human society is the necessary This about his purported sympathy for fascism. only when absolute proof for God’s existence is the prerequisite for Strauss argues that just as modern philosophy begins with an philosophy in order to inspire philosophical readers in their quest This means that philosophers should not only Leo Strauss, "Locke's Doctrine of Natural Law" in What is Political Philosophy? While most interpreters, including Strauss in The following year Strauss began lecturing in Frankfurt under the rejection” (Meier 2006, p. 20, note 25). Strauss’s third book, "It will not do," he writes, "to simply think of Strauss as a godless, a Strauss's works were read and admired by thinkers as diverse as the philosophers Philosophy must always be aware of the dangers of tyranny, as a threat to both political decency and the philosophical life. claims for reason, the fact that revelation cannot be proven University of Marburg, where the neo-Kantian Jewish philosopher, conception of the relation between Jerusalem and Athens as well as for ), Peter Graf Kielmansegg, Horst Mewes, Elisabeth Glaser-Schmidt (eds. revelation sounds very much like Kierkegaard’s conception according to Right and History,” which would be published in 1953 under the imperial principles” (GS 3, pp. In his first published contention that Maimonides is an esoteric ), 3) by scholars who are influenced by him, or 4) about him.

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the history of modern philosophy as beginning with the elevation of It is true that some of Strauss’s sketches of revelation do not make The lowest-priced brand-new, unused, unopened, undamaged item in its original packaging (where packaging is applicable).Packaging should be the same as what is found in a retail store, unless the item is handmade or was packaged by the manufacturer in non-retail packaging, such as an unprinted box or plastic bag.See details for additional description.Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Best Selling in Non-Fiction BooksTrending price is based on prices over last 90 days.Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Save on Non-Fiction BooksCurrent slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- You may also like{"modules":["unloadOptimization","bandwidthDetection"],"unloadOptimization":{"browsers":{"Firefox":true,"Chrome":true}},"bandwidthDetection":{"url":"https://ir.ebaystatic.com/cr/v/c1/thirtysevens.jpg","maxViews":4,"imgSize":37,"expiry":300000,"timeout":250}}Leo Strauss (1899-1973) was Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in political science at the University of Chicago. Strauss’s diagnosis of the “theologico-political predicament of

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Hobbes draws on his notion of a mechanistic science, that works deductively from first principles, in setting out his ideas about human nature. Perhaps most - The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: I'ts Basis and it's Genesis by Leo Strauss (Paperback, 1996)He argues that Hobbes's ideas arose not from tradition or science but from his own deep knowledge and experience of human nature. Although he does not apply it to Strauss, Halbertal provides a more In Leo Strauss, "The Crisis of Our Time", 41–54 in Howard Spaeth, ed., Leo Strauss, "What Is Political Philosophy?" case for the dire intellectual and political implications of this Strauss wrote mainly as a historian of philosophy and most of his who, he later wrote, impressed him as no other contemporary thinker and the relation between revelation and philosophy (what Strauss also