Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy

Name: Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy
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ISBN: 9780226777009

ISBN-10: 0226777006

ISBN-13: 9780226777009

Edition: 1983

Authors: Leo Strauss, Thomas L. Pangle, Joseph Cropsey

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One of the outstanding thinkers of our time offers in this book his final words to posterity. Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy was well underway at the time of Leo Strauss's death in 1973. Having chosen the title for the book, he selected the most important writings of his later years and arranged them to clarify the issues in political philosophy that occupied his attention throughout his life. As his choice of title indicates, the heart of Strauss's work is Platonism--a Platonism that is altogether unorthodox and highly controversial. These essays consider, among others, Heidegger, Husserl, Nietzsche, Marx, Moses Maimonides, Machiavelli, and of course Plato himself to test the…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 1983
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/15/1985
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 268
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Leo Strauss (1899-1973) was one of the preeminent political philosophers of the twentieth century. He is the author of many books, among them The Political Philosophy of Hobbes, Natural Right and History,and Spinoza's Critique of Religion, all published by the University of Chicago Press.



Foreword



Introduction



Abbreviations



Philosophy as Rigorous Science and Political Philosophy



On Plato'sApology of SocratesandCrito



On theEuthydemus



Preliminary Observations on the Gods in Thucydides' Work



Xenophon'sAnabasis



On Natural Law



Jerusalem and Athens: Some Preliminary Reflections



Note on the Plan of Nietzsche'sBeyond Good and Evil



Notes on Maimonides'Book of Knowledge



Note on Maimonides'Letter on Astrology



Note on Maimonides'Treatise on the Art of Logic



Niccolo Machiavelli



Review of C. B. Macpherson,The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke



Review of J. L. Talmon,The Nature of Jewish History—Its Universal Significance



Introductory Essay for Hermann Cohen,Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism


Leo Strauss, 1899-1973, a Bibliography


Index