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Journal articles on the topic "Leo Strauss, political philosophy, natural right, natural law"

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ALDES WURGAFT, BENJAMIN. "CULTURE AND LAW IN WEIMAR JEWISH MEDIEVALISM: LEO STRAUSS'S CRITIQUE OF JULIUS GUTTMANN." Modern Intellectual History 11, no. 1 (2014): 119–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1479244313000358.

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The German Jewish historian of political philosophy Leo Strauss is best known for mature works in which he proposed the existence of an esoteric tradition in political philosophy, attacked the liberal tradition of political thought, and defended a classical approach to natural right against its modern counterparts. This essay demonstrates that in his youth, beginning during a scholarly apprenticeship at the Berlin Akademie für die Wissenschaft des Judentums, Strauss championed “medievals” (rather than ancients) against “moderns,” and did so through a sparring match with his postdoctoral superv

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Ardakani, Mohammad Abedi, Mohammad Ali Tavana, and Gholamreza Mohebzadeh Nobandegani. "The Critique of Leo Strauss to Modernist Political Thought." Journal of Politics and Law 9, no. 7 (2016): 119. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/jpl.v9n7p119.

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As a conservative philosopher, Leo Strauss reconsiders and criticizes modern political thought methodologically and epistemologically, in that he believes it has faced crises leading history of philosophical thinking to deviate. To put simply, Strauss claims that the major part of critical thinking arisen in the West is the by-product of the modern political thought. According to this, the present paper reviews Strauss’s critique of modern political thought, putting the question “what kind of insights and enlightenments does Strauss’ critique of modern political thought encompass?” As a findin

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Umphrey, Stewart. "Natural Right and Philosophy." Review of Politics 53, no. 1 (1991): 19–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003467050005018x.

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“The problem inherent in the surface of things, and only in the surface of things, is the heart of things.” So wrote Leo Strauss in his Thoughts on Machiavelli. The sentence may seem to be a passing remark, and yet it states his main hermeneutical principle. On the one hand it articulates the abiding hypothesis that what is first for us, the very looks of things, is somehow first in itself. On the other hand it guides his commentaries on great books, ancient as well as modern. What if we let this principle guide our commentaries on Strauss's own books? Then the heart of Natural Right and Histo

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Kraynak, Robert P. "Moral Order in the Western Tradition: Harry Jaffa's Grand Synthesis of Athens, Jerusalem, and Peoria." Review of Politics 71, no. 2 (2009): 181–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034670509000308.

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AbstractHarry V. Jaffa has inspired a generation of students in American political thought by defending the natural rights principles of the Declaration of Independence and of Abraham Lincoln. Jaffa is also a defender of Leo Strauss's idea of a “political science of natural right,” which Strauss drew primarily from classical Greek political philosophy. Jaffa's efforts to defend the several strands of the Western natural right tradition led him to develop a grand synthesis of “Athens, Jerusalem, and Peoria,” which I argue is a noble but untenable way of upholding the moral order of the West—and

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LAZIER, BENJAMIN. "NATURAL RIGHT AND LIBERALISM: LEO STRAUSS IN OUR TIME." Modern Intellectual History 6, no. 1 (2009): 171–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1479244308001984.

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Not long ago, the actor and playwright Tim Robbins directed a production in New York and Los Angeles calledEmbedded. The play is strange, but nowhere more so than in one, infamous scene: a black mass in honor of the deceased political philosopher Leo Strauss, conducted by candlelight by advisers to President Bush in the run-up to the Iraq war. Characters who are transparent representations of Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz and Condoleezza Rice masturbate with abandon, all the while yelping “hail Leo Strauss!” beneath an outsized portrait of his face. The scene reac

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Cruz Sousa, André Luiz. "Thoughts on Leo Strauss's Interpretation of Aristotle's Natural Right Teaching." Review of Politics 78, no. 3 (2016): 419–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034670516000334.

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AbstractThe essay discusses the interpretation of Aristotle's natural right teaching by Leo Strauss. This interpretation ought to be seen as the result of an investigation into the history of philosophy and of an attempt to philosophically address political problems. By virtue of this twofold origin, the Straussian commentary is unorthodox: it deviates from traditional Aristotelianism (Aquinas and Averroes) and it seems alien to the text of the Nicomachean Ethics. Strauss's criticism of medieval variants results from their incapacity—shared by contemporary political thought—to address a perple

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Havers, Grant. "Leo Strauss and the politics of biblical religion." Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 30, no. 3-4 (2001): 353–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000842980103000307.

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Leo Strauss was one of the few political philosophers of the twentieth century to study the relation between faith and political philosophy. Yet Strauss's notoriously esoteric style has led scholars to wildly diverse interpretations of his views: his defenders believe that Strauss supports biblical religion as an instrument of truth and morality, while his critics contend that he opposes biblical religion for its biases while appreciating its political usefulness. I shall argue that Strauss is deeply opposed to the doctrines and political usage of biblical religion. For biblical doctrines clas

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McWiliams, Wilson Carey. "Leo Strauss and the Dignity of American Political Thought." Review of Politics 60, no. 2 (1998): 231–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034670500041188.

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Leo Strauss wrote only rarely about American thought, but he pointed his students and readers toward the “high adventure” of the American political tradition as a serious encounter with the great questions of political philosophy. Strauss saw American theory as a contest—one fought less between Americans than within them—pitting modernity's “first wave”, with its appeal to reason and natural right, against the more radical individualism and the historicism of later modern doctrine. Religion and classical rationalism, offering their own standards of a right above opinion, had been historically

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Smith, Thomas W. "The Order of Presentation and the Order of Understanding in Aquinas's Account of Law." Review of Politics 57, no. 4 (1995): 607–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034670500018659.

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It is argued that natural law can be known without the aid of revelation, and so it seems to be a medium through which people of different faiths can live together and talk to each other. However, Leo Strauss argues that Aquinas's understanding of natural law cannot possibly provide such a medium because Thomas relies on Christian revelation to develop his account of natural law. To counter this claim, this article makes a distinction between the way Aquinas presents his natural law teaching to his readers in a discussion of revelation and the way he thinks human beings may come to know natura

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Guerra, Marc D. "The Ambivalence of Classic Natural Right: Leo Strauss on Philosophy, Morality, and Statesmanship." Perspectives on Political Science 28, no. 2 (1999): 69–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10457099909600686.

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Books on the topic "Leo Strauss, political philosophy, natural right, natural law"

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Minkov, Svetozar, Leo Strauss, and Colen. Toward Natural Right and History: Lectures and Essays by Leo Strauss, 1937-1946. University of Chicago Press, 2018.

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Vatter, Miguel. Living Law. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197546505.001.0001.

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This book discusses the political theology developed by German Jewish philosophy in the 20th century on the basis of its original reconstruction of the teachings of Jewish prophetology. In the shadow of the modern experiences with anti-Semitism, the rise of Zionism, and the return of charismatic authority in mass societies, the discourse of Jewish political theology advances the radical hypothesis that the messianic idea of God’s Kingdom correlates with a post-sovereignty, anarchist political condition of radical non-domination. However, this messianic form of democracy, far from being antinom

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Book chapters on the topic "Leo Strauss, political philosophy, natural right, natural law"

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Martinich, A. P. "Leo Strauss’s Olympian Interpretation." In Hobbes's Political Philosophy. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197531716.003.0009.

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The author’s thesis is that Leo Strauss’s view is fundamentally mistaken about the foundational concepts of Hobbes’s political philosophy in De cive, namely, Hobbes’s concepts of right, self-preservation, and law. Concerning rights, Strauss’s claim that they are normative is mistaken. For Hobbes, rights exist where no law excludes them, that is, in the state of nature. They contribute to conflict; but no one violates another person’s right in that state. As for self-preservation, it is a desire and does not mean that humans have to use reason. Finally, as for law, Strauss is mistaken in thinki

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Wight, Martin. "Review of Hans J. Morgenthau, Dilemmas of Politics, and Correspondence (University of Chicago Press; and London, Cambridge University Press, 1958)." In International Relations and Political Philosophy. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198848219.003.0027.

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In Wight’s view, ‘Perhaps the most interesting thing about this book is that it does not mention Morgenthau’s colleague at Chicago, Leo Strauss [ … ] Agreed in their concern about the retreat of political science into “the trivial, the formal, the methodological, the purely theoretical, the remotely historical”, they are divided by the gulf of natural law.’ Morgenthau asserted, however, that Wight in his review had made ‘a factual error’. Morgenthau quoted another one of his books, In Defense of the National Interest: ‘There is a profound and neglected truth hidden in Hobbes’s extreme dictum t

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