Natural Right and History
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Natural Right and History
| Author | Leo Strauss |
|---|---|
| Published | 1953 |
| Pages | 327 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Leo Strauss’s Walgreen Lectures, arguing that modern social science’s value-neutrality collapses into historicism and relativism, and tracing how the classical idea of natural right — a standard of justice available to reason, not merely convention — was narrowed by Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Burke into something the modern mind can no longer take seriously. It asks whether there is any standard for judging regimes that is not simply the standard of one’s own time and place. |
Natural Right and History
Where I heard about it
- Brendan McCord — on his Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List, March 2026, as the anchor of the section on History of Political Philosophy and the Natural Right Tradition. The full 211-entry list is on The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List.
Connections
- Leo Strauss — the author.
- Justice — the natural-right standard the book is about.
- Liberalism — the modern tradition whose foundations the book examines.
- The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List — the curriculum this came from.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.