Leo Strauss on science : thoughts on the relation between natural science and political philosophy / Svetozar Y. Minkov

Author:: Minkov, Svetozar, 1975-
Uniform Title:: Essays. Selections
Published:: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2016]
Physical Description:: xvii, 222 pages ; 24 cm.

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SUNY series in the thought and legacy of Leo Strauss

Contents:

Political philosophy and natural science -- Political and psychological preconditions to recovering Socratic science -- The rediscovery of Socratic dialectic: Strauss on Schmitt's concept of the political 2. the fundamental political predicament: Strauss on Plato's laws, book III -- The origin and nature of philosophy -- The natural frame of reference and the possibility of a comprehensive science -- Natural right and history (ch. III) on the origin and nature of philosophy -- Divine revelation and the possibility of science -- Strauss's introduction to Platonic studies in modern times -- Philosophy and revelation -- The foundations and directions of modern philosophy and science -- Science and politics in Strauss's natural right course -- An irony beyond Machiavelli's irony: a reading of the concluding six paragraphs of thoughts on Machiavelli.

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9781438463117 hardcover ; alkaline paper
1438463111 hardcover ; alkaline paper

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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