ISBN:
9780226566825
Language:
English
Pages:
xxxviii, 232 S.
,
23,5 cm
Series Statement:
The Leo Strauss transcript series
DDC:
320.01
Keywords:
Political science Philosophy
;
Political science History
;
Strauss, Leo 1899-1973
;
Politische Philosophie
Description / Table of Contents:
Editor's introduction: Strauss's introduction to political philosophy -- Part I: The obstacles to the study of political philosophy today -- A. Positivism. Comte as the founder of positivism: the three stages of the history of mankind -- Comte's positive political philosophy -- Positivism after Comte: Simmel -- Value-free social science: Weber -- Strauss's responses to contemporary defenses of the fact-value distinction -- B. Historicism. Historicism as the more serious challenge to political philosophy -- R. G. Collingwood as an example -- Why studying the history of political philosophy is necessary today. On the difference between the ancients and the moderns -- Part 3: The origins of political philosophy. Physis and nomos.
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