Philosophy and Law

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Philosophy and Law
Contributions to the Understanding ofMaimonides and His Predecessors
Leo Strauss
Translated with an Introduction by Eve Adler
Leo Strauss's Philosophy and Law contains a groundbreaking study of the politicai philosophy of Maimonides and his Islamic predecessors, and it ofFers an argument on behalf of that philosophy which is also a profound critique 6f modem 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 eacR of the four sections of Philosophy and Law.
This is a fresh and challenging treatment of the perennial eonflict between reason and révélation, or philosophy and religion. Strauss's key contention in this book is that the most influential modem approaches to this conflict have run aground in ways that reflect their loss of key insights developed by... Tovább

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Philosophy and Law
Contributions to the Understanding ofMaimonides and His Predecessors
Leo Strauss
Translated with an Introduction by Eve Adler
Leo Strauss's Philosophy and Law contains a groundbreaking study of the politicai philosophy of Maimonides and his Islamic predecessors, and it ofFers an argument on behalf of that philosophy which is also a profound critique 6f modem 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 eacR of the four sections of Philosophy and Law.
This is a fresh and challenging treatment of the perennial eonflict between reason and révélation, or philosophy and religion. Strauss's key contention in this book is that the most influential modem approaches to this conflict have run aground in ways that reflect their loss of key insights developed by the medieval philosophera of Islam and their Jewish pupils, espécially Maimonides. Strauss challenges the modem 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. Vissza