Situating Leo Strauss: "Political Philosophy" Re-defined
碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 政治學研究所 === 97 === The controversies surrounding the German-born American scholar Leo Strauss and his political philosophy have always been fierce. In this study, I intend to offer my understanding of Strauss’s political philosophy by showing that how Strauss’s thought responds to h...
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2009
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| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 政治學研究所 === 97 === The controversies surrounding the German-born American scholar Leo Strauss and his political philosophy have always been fierce. In this study, I intend to offer my understanding of Strauss’s political philosophy by showing that how Strauss’s thought responds to his time, with the problem that it is pointing to, is the key to his political philosophy. And this understanding has to be based upon the awareness that his “political philosophy” is idiosyncratic in the way that we should refrain from simply judging and criticizing it from the present and modern point of view.
I argue that Strauss’s “political philosophy” is to be examined with the thought that Strauss is holding a unique view of philosophy, and it is to be assessed as one whose insight and value is no less enlightening than other philosophical developments of the time. Going over the genesis and development of Strauss’s “political philosophy” would finally lead us to the realization that the idea of nature constitutes the core of his political philosophy. This process also justifies our early point that Strauss’s thought can only be fully comprehended when we take his early works into account. I argue that this is how we obtain the most comprehensive interpretation of his “political philosophy.”
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