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The crude characterization of Strauss as a “consequentialist” does not much help matters either. A more subtle discussion of Strauss's “exotericism” and his relation to Nietzsche can be found in Stanley Rosen, Hermeneutics as Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987), 107-23.
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Dec 1, 2010 · Leo Strauss was a twentieth-century German Jewish émigré to the United States whose intellectual corpus spans ancient, medieval and modern political philosophy and includes, among others, studies of Plato, Maimonides, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Spinoza, and Nietzsche. Strauss wrote mainly as a historian of philosophy and most of his writings take ...
Abstract. Strauss’s concern to restore political philosophy and overcome historicism led him to reread the history of political philosophy. He is known for his many innovative studies of individual philosophers, but he also extracted from that rereading an overarching narrative of the history of political philosophy.
Jul 18, 2014 · In the meantime Strauss reminds his readers of the real and present advantages of living in a modern liberal democracy. “We are not permitted to be flatterers of democracy,” he urges, “precisely because we are friends and allies of democracy.”
J\t the time Strauss published Natural Right and History (1953) the state of the question of natural right was a mixture of oblivion and. fitful restoration. Natural right had disappeared from the center of discussion in political philosophy for well over a century.
Feb 27, 2009 · In this paper I consider Strauss's case for philosophy as a “way of life.” Strauss's case rests, I believe, on a view of philosophy first as a quest—an erotic aspiration—for knowledge of the whole and second as committed to a skeptical view of our ability ever to attain to such knowledge.
Aug 5, 2014 · Esotericism is the heart of Strauss’s political philosophy. It is his key insight; it defines the hermeneutical methodology he founded and propagated; above all, it animates his experience of intellectual life.
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