Leo Strauss- Theological-Political Problem

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1、ContentsI.Strauss'PrefacetoHobbesPolitischeWissenschaftII.TheLivingIssuesofGermanPost-WarPhilosophyIII.ReasonandRevelationIV.WhatcanwelearnfromPoliticalTheory?V.NotesonSchmitt's"ConceptofthePolitical"VI.PoliticalPhilosophyandHistoryVII.MutualInfluenceofTheology&PhilosophyVIII.GerhardKrüger'sReview

2、ofStrauss'SpinozaBook(trans.)Thisisanexpandedcollectionoftextspublishedseparatelyoveraperiodof25years.Addedheretothetwopreviouslyunpublishedandinaccessibleessayseditedandmadeavailableforthefirsttimein2006byProfessorMeier(“LivingIssues”&“ReasonandRevelation”)areseveralessaysrelevanttothetheological

3、-politicalproblem,anautobiographicalstatementbyStrauss,andareview(verydifficulttoobtain)byKrüger–areviewwhichwaspraisedhighlybyStrausshimself.AllinterpretivematerialhasbeenexcludedfromthiseditiontomakeroomforthemoreimportantwritingsofStraussinhisownvoice.Onlythebestororiginaltextshavebeenusedforth

4、iscollection.ThisvaluableeditionwillserveasanintroductiontothecoreofStrauss’thought,butalsoprovidestrainedandexperiencedreaderswithsomeofthefinestexamplesofStrauss’artofwritingintheirearlier,butfullymatureexpression.April2009.WhatCanWeLearnFromPoliticalTheory?Editorialnote:punctuationhasbeenputins

5、idequotationmarks,spacinghasbeenstandardized,andparagraphshavebeenindented.Strauss’scorrectionsoftypographicalerrorshavenotbeennoted.(LecturetobedeliveredintheGeneralSeminaroftheSummerCourse1942,July1942)1Thetitleofthislectureisnotentirelyofmyownchoosing.Idonotlikevery2muchthetermpoliticaltheory;I

6、wouldprefertospeakofpoliticalphilosophy.Sincethisterminologicalquestionisnotentirelyverbal,Ibegleavetosayafewwordsaboutit.Theterm“politicaltheory”impliesthatthereissuchathingastheoreticalknowledgeofthingspolitical.Thisimplicationisbynomeansself-evident.3Formerly,allpoliticalknowledgewasconsideredp

7、racticalknowledge,andnottheoreticalknowledge.Irecallthetraditionaldivisionofthesciencesintotheor-4eticalandpracticalsciences.Accordingtothatdivision,politicalphilosophy,orpoliticalscience,togetherwithethicsandeco