LEO STRAUSS: HISTORICISM, POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, AND POLITICAL SCIENCE Cover Image

LEO STRAUSSAS: ISTORIZMAS, POLITINĖ FILOSOFIJA IR POLITIKOS MOKSLAS
LEO STRAUSS: HISTORICISM, POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

Author(s): Mindaugas Stoškus
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Vilniaus Universiteto Leidykla
Keywords: Leo Strauss; political science; political philosophy; historicism; natural right

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to discuss the influence of historicism on political philosophy which was revealed by Leo Strauss. The paper deals with links between historicism, modern political philosophy, and political science. Reasons are explicated for historicist elimination from scientific discourse of the main problems of classical political philosophy: justice, natural right, best political regime. The paper discusses the main ideas of historicism, which political science absorbed, and Strauss`s exposed contradictions of historicism, its inability to prove consistently the narrowness of philosophical thinking or the reliability of historicist attitude. Political science also becomes self-contradictory as much as it uses historicist approach.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 83
  • Page Range: 96-106
  • Page Count: 11
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