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  • On Tyranny

    Including the Strauss-Kojève Correspondence

    by Leo Strauss ...
    An analysis of the classic Greek dialogue about absolute rule and the impassioned commentary it inspired between two philosophers.On Tyranny is Leo Strauss's classic reading of Xenophon's dialogue Hiero, or Tyrannicus, in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss the advantages and disadvantages of exercising tyranny. Included are a translation of the dialogue from its original Greek, ... Read more

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  • Spinoza's Critique of Religion

    by Leo Strauss ...
    Leo Strauss articulates the conflict between reason and revelation as he explores Spinoza's scientific, comparative, and textual treatment of the Bible. Strauss compares Spinoza's Theologico-political Treatise and the Epistles, showing their relation to critical controversy on religion from Epicurus and Lucretius through Uriel da Costa and Isaac Peyrere to Thomas Hobbes.Strauss's autobiographical ... Read more

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  • Thoughts on Machiavelli

    by Leo Strauss ...
    The esteemed philosopher's assessment of good, evil, and the value of Machiavelli.Leo Strauss argued that the most visible fact about Machiavelli's doctrine is also the most useful one: Machiavelli seems to be a teacher of wickedness. Strauss sought to incorporate this idea in his interpretation without permitting it to overwhelm or exhaust his exegesis of The Prince and Discourses on the First ... Read more

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  • Natural Right and History

    by Leo Strauss ...
    In this classic work, Leo Strauss examines the problem of natural right and argues that there is a firm foundation in reality for the distinction between right and wrong in ethics and politics. On the centenary of Strauss's birth, and the fiftieth anniversary of the Walgreen Lectures which spawned the work, Natural Right and History remains as controversial and essential as ever."Strauss . . . ... Read more

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  • History of Political Philosophy

    Edited by Leo Strauss, Joseph Cropsey ...
    Designed for undergraduate students, a historical survey of the most important political philosophers in the Western tradition.This volume provides an unequaled introduction to the thought of chief contributors to the Western tradition of political philosophy from classical Greek antiquity to the twentieth century. Written by specialists on the various philosophers, this third edition has been ... Read more

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  • Leo Strauss on Plato's Protagoras

    by Leo Strauss ...
    A transcript of Leo Strauss's key seminars on Plato's Protagoras.This book offers a transcript of Strauss's seminar on Plato's Protagoras taught at the University of Chicago in the spring quarter of 1965, edited and introduced by renowned scholar Robert C. Bartlett. These lectures have several important features. Unlike his published writings, they are less dense and more conversational. ... Read more

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  • Leo Strauss on Hegel

    by Leo Strauss ...
    In the winter of 1965, Leo Strauss taught a seminar on Hegel at the University of Chicago. While Strauss neither considered himself a Hegelian nor wrote about Hegel at any length, his writings contain intriguing references to the philosopher, particularly in connection with his studies of Hobbes, in his debate in On Tyranny with Alexandre Koje`ve; and in his account of the "three waves" of modern ... Read more

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  • The Guide of the Perplexed, Volume 2

    by Moses Maimonides ...
    Translated by Shlomo Pines ...
    The classic translation of the text exploring the relationship between Jewish theology and Aristotelian philosophy.This monument of rabbinical exegesis written at the end of the twelfth century has exerted an immense and continuing influence upon Jewish thought. Its aim is to liberate people from the tormenting perplexities arising from their understanding of the Bible according only to its ... Read more

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  • The Argument and the Action of Plato's Laws

    by Leo Strauss ...
    The posthumous publication of The Argument and the Action of Plato's "Laws" was compiled shortly before the death of Leo Strauss in 1973. Strauss offers an insightful and instructive reading through careful probing of Plato's classic text."Strauss's The Argument and the Action of Plato's 'Laws' reflects his interest in political thought, his dogged method of following the argument of the Laws step ... Read more

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  • Toward Natural Right and History

    Lectures and Essays by Leo Strauss, 1937–46

    by Leo Strauss ...
    Collected lectures and essays offering insight into the philosopher and his ideas on politics, natural law, and social sciences.Toward Natural Right and History collects six lectures by Leo Strauss, written while he was at the New School, and a full transcript of his 1949 Walgreen Lectures. These works show Strauss working toward the ideas he would present in fully matured form in his landmark ... Read more

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  • Persecution and the Art of Writing

    by Leo Strauss ...
    "The locus classicus of Strauss's theory of 'esoteric writing,' which he . . . emphatically exemplifies in three brilliant and influential interpretations." —Nathan Tarcov, University of ChicagoThe essays collected in Persecution and the Art of Writing all deal with one problem—the relation between philosophy and politics. Here, Strauss sets forth the thesis that many philosophers, especially ... Read more

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  • Leo Strauss on Political Philosophy

    Responding to the Challenge of Positivism and Historicism

    by Leo Strauss ...
    Series series The Leo Strauss Transcript Series
    The eminent political theorist's classic lectures on the history of political philosophy and the problems of historicism and relativism.Leo Strauss is known for reviving classical political philosophy through careful analyses of works by ancient thinkers. As with his published writings, Strauss's seminars were notoriously dense, accessible only to graduate students and scholars. In 1965, however, ... Read more

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