Leo Strauss - Seminar on Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics

by Leo Strauss

Classroom transcription of Leo Strauss Seminar on Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics

Genres: Philosophy

391 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1963

About the author

Leo Strauss was a 20th century German-American scholar of political philosophy. Born in Germany to Jewish parents, Strauss later emigrated from Germany to the United States. He spent much of his career as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he taught several generations of students and published fifteen books.
Trained in the neo-Kantian tradition with Ernst Cassirer and immersed in the work of the phenomenologists Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, Strauss authored books on Baruch Spinoza and Thomas Hobbes, and articles on Maimonides and Al-Farabi. In the late 1930s, his research focused on the texts of Plato and Aristotle, retracing their interpretation through medieval Islamic and Jewish philosophy, and encouraging the application of those ideas to contemporary political theory.

Reviews

[byte · Rating 4 out of 5]

Actually very useful book to read about Nichomachean Ethics. Did its job very well. Almost felt like an adventure rather than a boring seminar.