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The first study of Strauss's confrontation with modern science and its methods.

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Author:   Svetozar Y. Minkov
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.322kg
ISBN:  

9781438463124

ISBN 10:   143846312
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   02 July 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Preface Abbreviations Introduction: The Relation between Political Philosophy and Natural Science Part I. Political and Psychological Preconditions for Recovering Socratic Science 1. The Rediscovery of Socratic Dialectic: Strauss on Schmitt's The Concept of the Political 2. The ""Fundamental Political Predicament"": Strauss on Plato's Laws, Book III Part II. The Origin and Nature of Philosophy 3. The Natural Frame of Reference and the Possibility of a Comprehensive Science 4. Natural Right and History (ch. 3) on the Origin and Nature of Philosophy Part III. Divine Revelation and the Possibility of Science 5. Strauss's Introduction to ""Platonic Studies"" in Modern Times 6. Revelation and the Problem of Knowledge Part IV. The Foundations and Directions of Modern Philosophy and Science 7. Science and Politics in Strauss's Course on Natural Right (1962) 8. ""An Irony Beyond Machiavelli's Irony"": A Reading of the Concluding Six Paragraphs of Thoughts on Machiavelli Concluding Remarks Acknowledgments Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Svetozar Y. Minkov is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Roosevelt University and the author of Francis Bacon's ""Inquiry Touching Human Nature"": Virtue, Philosophy, and the Relief of Man's Estate.

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