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After Leo Strauss : new directions in platonic political philosophy /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2014]
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| Colección: | SUNY series in the thought and legacy of Leo Strauss.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Introduction: Rethinking Leo Strauss; 1. Strauss, Historicism, and the Academy; 2. Some New Directions; 3. Overview; Chapter 2 Modern Science and Classical Natural Right; 1. The Role of Analogy in Ancient Physics; 2. Early Modern Advances in Coherence: The Mechanistic Philosophy; 3. Disrupting the Progress: Gains and Losses in Intelligibility; 4. Another Blow to Mechanical Modeling: The Theory of Relativity; 5. Quantum Nonmechanics; 6. Explaining and Not Explaining the Law of Entropy; 7. The Limitations of Modern Physics.
- 8. The Socratic Turn from Cosmology and the Foundation of Natural RightChapter 3 Nietzsche's Plato; 1. Nietzsche's Brand of Reductionism; 2. Nietzsche's Reductionist View of Socrates; Chapter 4 Socrates, the Ideas, and a Non-Esoteric Reading of Plato; 1. The Socratic Turn and the Theory of Ideas in the Phaedo; 2. The Turn from Reductionism in the Phaedrus; 3. Socrates against the Reductionists: Thrasymachus; 4. Socrates against the Reductionists: Polus and Callicles; 5. The Socratic Re-enchantment with the World; Chapter 5 The Limitations of Platonic Dualism.
- 1. Plato's Republic-Timaeus-Critias Trilogy2. Aristotle's Critique of Platonic Physics and Politics; 3. Machiavelli's Revolt against Platonic and Christian Pessimism; 4. The New Science of Nature: Implications for Politics; 5. Hobbes and the Quest for a New Science of Human Nature; 6. Economics and Order Arising from Below; 7. Where Are We Now?; Chapter 6 Socratic Liberalism; 1. The Apology: Socratic Uncertainty and the Socratic Way of Life; 2. Socrates and the Value of Perplexity; 3. Uncertainty and Philosophy in the Republic; 4. Socratic Uncertainty and the Teleology of Aristotle.
- 5. The Modern Origins of Democratic Liberalism6. Challenges to Classical Liberalism, Part I: Rousseau; 7. Challenges to Classical Liberalism, Part II: Nietzsche; 8. Socratic Liberal Politics; 9. Socratic Liberal Theory in American Politics; Chapter 7 Philosophic Wisdom and Literary Wisdom; 1. Socrates and Poetry; 2. Literary Wisdom; 3. Plato's Literary Wisdom; Notes; Bibliography; Abbreviations of Works by Leo Strauss; Index.