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Leo Strauss on Plato's "Protagoras"/ Leo Strauss; ed. by Robert C. Bartlett.
No full textIn English.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. Additionally, while Strauss regarded himself as a Platonist and published some work on Plato, he published little on individual dialogues. In these lectures Strauss treats many of the great Platonic and Straussian themes: the difference between the Socratic political science or art and the Sophistic political science or art of Protagoras; the character and teachability of virtue, its relation to knowledge, and the relations among the virtues, courage, justice, moderation, and wisdom; the good and the pleasant; frankness and concealment; the role of myth; and the relation between freedom of thought and freedom of speech. In these lectures, Strauss examines Protagoras and the sophists, providing a detailed discussion of Protagoras as it relates to Plato's other dialogues and the work of modern thinkers. This book should be of special interest to students both of Plato and of Strauss.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on the Leo Strauss Transcript Project -- Editorial Headnote -- Introduction -- 1 Sophistry and Rhetoric: Plato's Gorgias Reconsidered -- 2 Callicles's Challenge to Socrates in the Gorgias -- 3 Sophistry, Rhetoric, and the Philosophic Life -- 4 The Turn to the Protagoras (309a- 312b) -- 5 Meeting Protagoras (312b- 316c) -- 6 Is Virtue Teachable? (316c- 320c) -- 7 The Long Speech of Protagoras: Mythos (320c- 322d) -- 8 The Long Speech of Protagoras: Mythos and Logos (322d- 325b) -- 9 The Long Speech of Protagoras, Teacher of Virtue (325b- 329d) -- 10 The Cross- Examination of Protagoras: Virtue and Its Parts (329d- 335c) -- 11 The First Breakdown of the Conversation and Its Aftermath (335c- 341c) -- 12 Virtue in the Element of Poetry (341c- 347c) -- 13 What Is Courage? (347c- 352e) -- 14 On the Hedonism of the Many (352e- 356c) -- 15 The Hedonistic Calculus and the Problem of Courage (356c- 359c) -- 16 Courage, Hedonism, and the Refutation of Protagoras (359c- 362a) -- 17 Summary and Conclusion: Rhetoric and Sophistry -- Notes -- Index1 online resource (416 p.)
Leo Strauss - La filosofia politica di Hobbes. Il suo fondamento e la sua genesi (a cura di Carlo Altini)
No full textIl volume presenta la traduzione italiana dell'opera "The Political Philosophy of Hobbes" di Leo Strauss pubblicata in traduzione inglese a Oxford nel 1936, ma scritta originariamente in tedesco. La versione inglese qui tradotta è stata confrontata (e integrata in nota) con la versione originale tedesca, pubblicata solo nel 1965
Leo Strauss and the East–West dialogue
No full textThis chapter explores the different ways the thoughts of Leo Strauss can make a significant contribution to the philosophical dialogue between East and West. For students of Eastern philosophy, Strauss provides an important avenue for understanding the nature of modernity and what Strauss diagnoses as the crisis of modernity. For those familiar with the Western tradition, Strauss’s insights into hermeneutics, natural rights, and piety provide valuable means for engaging Eastern thought, yielding potentially new insights into both traditions and providing the basis or the means to understand what is specific or unique to each approach.Full Tex
La critica della filosofia politica moderna in Leo Strauss. Tra Hobbes e la Germania di Weimar
No full textIl saggio ricostruisce il percorso intellettuale che, negli anni della Repubblica di Weimar, conduce Leo Strauss al confronto con la filosofia politica di Hobbes, considerato quale fondatore della modernità
Leo Strauss on Maimonides The Complete Writings
No full textIntro -- Contents -- Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Introduction -- I - Point of Departure: Why Study Medieval Thinkers? -- 1. How to Study Medieval Philosophy -- II - On Maimonides -- 2. Spinoza's Critique of Maimonides -- 3. Cohen and Maimonides -- 4. The Philosophic Foundation of the Law -- Appendix 4A -- Appendix 4B -- 5. Some Remarks on the Political Science of Maimonide sand Farabi -- 6. The Place of the Doctrine of Providence according to Maimonides -- 7. Review of The Mishneh Torah, Book 1, by Moses Maimonides -- 8. The Literary Character of The Guide of the Perplexed -- 9. Maimonides' Statement on Political Science -- 10. Introduction to Maimonides' The Guide of the Perplexed -- 11. How To Begin To Study The Guide of the Perplexed -- 12. Notes on Maimonides' Book of Knowledge -- 13. Note on Maimonides' Treatise on the Art of Logic -- 14. Note on Maimonides' Letter on Astrology -- III - On Isaac Abravanel, the Last Medieval Maimonidean -- 15. On Abravanel's Philosophical Tendency and Political Teaching -- Appendix -- Abbreviations -- Sources and History of the Texts -- Bibliography -- IndexDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Leo Strauss Collection undated, 1974
No full textThe collection contains documentation of the work of philosopher Leo Strauss, including a curriculum vitae; correspondence regarding his bibliography; and bibliography of his publications.digitizedPolitical philosopher and classicist, born 1899 in Kirchhain. Died 1973 in Annapolis, Maryland.The original inventory is available in the folde
Socrate a Gerusalemme. Leo Strauss e la sfida della rivelazione
No full textSaggio introduttivo a "Leo Strauss, Scritti su filosofia e religione
Postfazione a Leo Strauss, Scritti su filosofia e religione,
No full textRaccolta, con prefazione e postfazione dei principali scritti di leo Strauss sul tema del rapporto tra filosofia e religion
Leo Strauss on democracy, technology, and liberal education SUNY series in the thought and legacy of Leo Strauss./ Timothy W. Burns.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.Liberal democracy is today under unprecedented attack from both the left and the right. Offering a fresh and penetrating examination of how Leo Strauss understood the emergence of liberal democracy and what is necessary to sustain and elevate it, Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology, and Liberal Education explores Strauss' view of the intimate (and troubling) relation between the philosophic promotion of liberal democracy and the turn to the modern scientific-technological project of the "conquest of nature." Timothy W. Burns explicates the political reasoning behind Strauss' recommendation of reminders of genuine political greatness within democracy over and against the failure of nihilistic youth to recognize it. Elucidating what Strauss envisaged by a liberally-educated sub-political or cultural-level aristocracy--one that could elevate and sustain liberal democracy--and the roles that both philosophy and divine-law traditions should have in that education, Burns also lays out Strauss' frequent (though often tacit) engagement with the thought of Heidegger on these issues.Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Modern Political Thought as Technological Thought -- Technology and Democracy -- Chapter One Democracy and Liberal Education -- Contemporary Nihilists, Ancestral Traditions, and Liberal Education -- Chapter Two An Aristocracy within a Democracy: "Liberal Education and Responsibility" -- The Rise of Modern Science and the Evolution to Modern Democracy -- Chapter Three "German Nihilism" -- The Place of the Old Moral Reasoning -- Moral Reasoning and Ancestral Traditions -- Tradition and the Health of Liberal Democracy -- Chapter Four "The Liberalism of Classical Political Philosophy" -- Havelock's Liberalism -- Disinterring Greek Liberalism: Aeschylus and Sophocles -- Reconstructing the Anthropologists' Teaching: Protagoras and Republic -- The Account of the Fragments of Antiphon -- Chapter Five Concluding Reflections on Moral-Political Reasoning in Contemporary Liberal Democracy -- Index.1 online resourc
Spinoza e Strauss, ovvero tra filosofia e storia della filosofia
No full textPresentazione del seminario di Leo Strauss su Spinoza all'University of Chicag
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