Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion - Hardcover

Meier, Heinrich

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 022627585X ISBN 13: 9780226275857

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2017

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"Meier, the world's foremost Strauss scholar, came to Strauss's work through his own reading rather than as a member of Strauss's 'school, ' making his perspective unique. As such, he is well positioned to say of Strauss what the man would not say of himself. And Meier's calling out of Strauss as a philosopher is not merely a correction of the historical ledger. It contains an understanding of what it means to be a philosopher, an understanding that Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion shares and explores with great subtly and daring."--Claremont Review of Books "Meier has written and taught extensively on political philosophy, with an understanding on the topic that allows for nuanced original insights. Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion is an example of such work."--International Journal of Public Theology

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Heinrich Meier's guiding insight in Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion is that philosophy must prove its right and its necessity in the face of the claim to truth and demand obedience of its most powerful opponent, revealed religion. Philosophy must rationally justify and politically defend its free and unreserved questioning, and, in doing so, turns decisively to political philosophy. In the first of three chapters, Meier determines four intertwined moments constituting the concept of political philosophy as an articulated and internally dynamic whole. The following two chapters develop the concept through the interpretation of two masterpieces of political philosophy that have occupied Meier's attention for more than thirty years: Leo Strauss's Thoughts on Machiavelli and Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Social Contract. Meier provides a detailed investigation of Thoughts on Machiavelli, with an appendix containing Strauss's original manuscript headings for each of his paragraphs. Linking the problem of Socrates (the origin of political philosophy) with the problem of Machiavelli (the beginning of modern political philosophy), while placing between them the political and theological claims opposed to philosophy, Strauss's most complex and controversial book proves to be, as Meier shows, the most astonishing treatise on the challenge of revealed religion. The final chapter, which offers a new interpretation of the Social Contract, demonstrates that Rousseau's most famous work can be adequately understood only as a coherent political-philosophic response to theocracy in all its forms.

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• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 022627585X
• ISBN 13: 9780226275857
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224