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Table of Contents
Note on the Leo Strauss Transcript Project
Editor’s Introduction: Strauss’s Introduction to Political Philosophy
Editorial Headnote
Part One: The Obstacles to the Study of Political Philosophy Today
A. PositivismChapter 1: Comte as the Founder of Positivism: The Three Stages of the History of Mankind
Chapter 2: Comte’s Positive Political Philosophy
Chapter 3: Positivism after Comte: Simmel
Chapter 4: Value-Free Social Science: Weber
Chapter 5: Strauss’s Responses to Contemporary Defenses of the Fact-Value Distinction
B. HistoricismChapter 6: Historicism as the More Serious Challenge to Political Philosophy
Chapter 7: R. G. Collingwood as an Example

Part Two: Why Studying the History of Political Philosophy Is Necessary Today
Chapter 8: On the Difference between the Ancients and the Moderns

Part Three: The Origins of Political Philosophy
Chapter 9: Physis and Nomos
NotesIndex

Leo Strauss on Political Philosophy

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 24/12/2021
      ISBN13: 9780226816807, 978-0226816807
      ISBN10: 022681680X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." * Choice *

      Table of Contents
      Note on the Leo Strauss Transcript Project
      Editor’s Introduction: Strauss’s Introduction to Political Philosophy
      Editorial Headnote
      Part One: The Obstacles to the Study of Political Philosophy Today
      A. PositivismChapter 1: Comte as the Founder of Positivism: The Three Stages of the History of Mankind
      Chapter 2: Comte’s Positive Political Philosophy
      Chapter 3: Positivism after Comte: Simmel
      Chapter 4: Value-Free Social Science: Weber
      Chapter 5: Strauss’s Responses to Contemporary Defenses of the Fact-Value Distinction
      B. HistoricismChapter 6: Historicism as the More Serious Challenge to Political Philosophy
      Chapter 7: R. G. Collingwood as an Example

      Part Two: Why Studying the History of Political Philosophy Is Necessary Today
      Chapter 8: On the Difference between the Ancients and the Moderns

      Part Three: The Origins of Political Philosophy
      Chapter 9: Physis and Nomos
      NotesIndex

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