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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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  • 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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  • The Concept of the Political

    by Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss ...
    Translated by George Schwab ...
    "Arguably Schmitt's most influential work . . . recognized as one of the most important tracts of modern political thought." —Samuel Earle, The New StatesmanIn this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues that liberalism's basis in individual rights cannot provide a reasonable justification for sacrificing oneself for the state—a critique as cogent ... 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 1

    by Moses Maimonides ...
    Translated by Shlomo Pines ...
    "One of the most important contributions to the study of Maimonides . . . The translation is of a quality unequaled in a modern language."— Journal of the History of PhilosophyThis monument of rabbinical exegesis written at the end of the twelfth century has exerted an immense and continuing influence upon Jewish thought. It has also been a formative element in the thinking of leading Christian ... Read more

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  • Leo Strauss on Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra

    by Leo Strauss ...
    Series series The Leo Strauss Transcript Series
    Although Leo Strauss published little on Nietzsche, his lectures and correspondence demonstrate a deep critical engagement with Nietzsche's thought. One of the richest contributions is a seminar on Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, taught in 1959 during Strauss's tenure at the University of Chicago. In the lectures, Strauss draws important parallels between Nietzsche's most important project and ... 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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  • Leo Strauss on Moses Mendelssohn

    by Leo Strauss ...
    Translated by Martin D. Yaffe ...
    Moses Mendelssohn (1729–86) was the leading Jewish thinker of the German Enlightenment and the founder of modern Jewish philosophy. His writings, especially his attempt during the Pantheism Controversy to defend the philosophical legacies of Spinoza and Leibniz against F. H. Jacobi's philosophy of faith, captured the attention of a young Leo Strauss and played a critical role in the development of ... Read more

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