What Is Political Philosophy?
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What Is Political Philosophy?
| Full title | What Is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies |
|---|---|
| Author | Leo Strauss |
| Published | 1959 |
| Pages | 315 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Strauss’s title essay argues that political philosophy replaces opinion about political things with knowledge of them, and that the social sciences’ claim to be value-free abandons the question — what is a good regime — the discipline exists to ask. The programmatic statement of the Straussian reading, with essays on classical political rationalism and on Machiavelli, Hobbes and Locke as the founders of modernity. |
What Is Political Philosophy?
Where I heard about it
- Brendan McCord — on his Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List, where it organises the section on History of Political Philosophy and Straussian Interpretation; the entry carries a ☑️ mark the list doesn’t explain. Full transcription: The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List.
Connections
- The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List — the curriculum this came from.
What links here
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