Philosophy and Law: Contributions to the Understanding of Maimonides and His Predecessors

Leo Strauss's Philosophy and Law contains a groundbreaking study of the political philosophy of Maimonides and his...
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Author: Leo Strauss
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Philosophy and Law: Contributions to the Understanding of Maimonides and His Predecessors by Strauss, Leo

Philosophy and Law: Contributions to the Understanding of Maimonides and His Predecessors

€71,66

Philosophy and Law: Contributions to the Understanding of Maimonides and His Predecessors

€71,66
Author: Leo Strauss
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Leo Strauss's Philosophy and Law contains a groundbreaking study of the political philosophy of Maimonides and his Islamic predecessors, and it offers an argument on behalf of that philosophy which is also a profound critique of modern philosophy. Here is an entirely new and complete English translation of Strauss's work, which takes as its ideal the exacting standards of accuracy that Strauss himself emphasized in his own work. It includes a prefatory essay introducing the argument of each of the four sections of Philosophy and Law.

This is a fresh and challenging treatment of the perennial conflict between reason and revelation, or philosophy and religion. Strauss's key contention in this book is that the most influential modern approaches to this conflict have run aground in ways that reflect their loss of key insights developed by the medieval philosophers of Islam and their Jewish pupils, especially Maimonides. Strauss challenges the modern view that scientific enlightenment must ultimately amount to atheism, and that therefore there can be no such thing as enlightened religion. Through a careful, original, and detailed treatment of central works of the medieval Islamic-Jewish tradition, especially Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed, Strauss aims to recover their key insights into this question.

Author: Leo Strauss
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 03/30/1995
Pages: 164
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.84w x 0.38d
ISBN: 9780791419762

About the Author
Leo Strauss was the Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor in Political Science at the University of Chicago. Eve Adler is Professor of Classics at Middlebury College.


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