تاریخ فلسفه سیاسی

by Leo Strauss, Joseph Cropsey, یاشار جیرانی (Translator)

498 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1989

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

[Mind · Rating 3 out of 5]

نکتهٔ محوری در اندیشه اشتراوس این است که حقایق فلسفی زمانمند نیستند. یعنی سوالات بنیادین فلسفه در تمام زمان‌ها مشترک است. از همین منظر است که اشتراوس با تاریخی‌گرایی مخالفت می‌کند. دیدگاه تاریخی‌گرایی معتقد است بستر تاریخی که هر شخص در آن زندگی می‌کند شیوهٔ اندیشیدن او را تعیین می‌کند و از آنجا که گذشتگان در فضای تاریخی بسیار متفاوتی زندگی کرده‌اند امکان دستیابی به نظرات واقعی آن‌ها غیرممکن است.