{"title":"Series: The Leo Strauss Transcript Series","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"leo-strauss-on-platos-protagoras-by-leo-strauss-9780226818153","title":"Leo Strauss on Plato’s \"Protagoras\"","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA transcript of Leo Strauss’s key seminars on Plato’s \u003ci\u003eProtagoras\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book offers a transcript of Strauss’s seminar on Plato’s \u003ci\u003eProtagoras\u003c\/i\u003e taught at the University of Chicago in the spring quarter of 1965, edited and introduced by renowned scholar Robert C. Bartlett.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese lectures have several important features. Unlike his published writings, they are less dense and more conversational. Additionally, while Strauss regarded himself as a Platonist and published some work on Plato, he published little on individual dialogues. In these lectures, Strauss treats many of the great Platonic and Straussian themes: the difference between the Socratic political science or art and the Sophistic political science or art of Protagoras; the character and teachability of virtue, its relation to knowledge, and the relations among the virtues—courage, justice, moderation, and wisdom; the good and the pleasant; frankness and concealment; the role of myth; and the relation between freedom of thought and freedom of speech.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn these lectures, Strauss examines Protagoras and the sophists, providing a detailed discussion of \u003ci\u003eProtagoras\u003c\/i\u003e as it relates to Plato’s other dialogues and the work of modern thinkers. This book should be of special interest to students both of Plato and of Strauss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000669454572,"sku":"9780226818153","price":104.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/20409813482268.jpg?v=1763295159"},{"product_id":"leo-strauss-on-political-philosophy-by-leo-strauss-9780226816807","title":"Leo Strauss on Political Philosophy","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeo Strauss is known primarily for reviving classical political philosophy through careful analyses of works by ancient thinkers. As with his published writings, Strauss’s seminars devoted to specific philosophers were notoriously dense, accessible only to graduate students and scholars with a good command of the subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1965, however, Strauss offered an introductory course on political philosophy at the University of Chicago. Using a conversational style, he sought to make political philosophy, as well as his own ideas and methods, understandable to those with little background on the subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeo Strauss on Political Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e brings together the lectures that comprise Strauss’s “Introduction to Political Philosophy.” Strauss begins by emphasizing the importance of political philosophy in determining the common good of society and critically examining the two most powerful contemporary challenges to the possibility of using political theory to learn about and develop the best political order: positivism and historicism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn seeking the common good, classical political philosophers like Plato and Aristotle did not distinguish between political philosophy and political science. Today, however, political philosophy must contend with the contemporary belief that it is impossible to know what the good society really is. Strauss emphasizes the need to study the history of political philosophy to see whether the changes in the understanding of nature and conceptions of justice that gradually led people to believe that it is not possible to determine what the best political society is are either necessary or valid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn doing so, he ranges across the entire history of political philosophy, providing a valuable, thematically coherent foundation, including explications of many canonical thinkers, such as Auguste Comte and Immanuel Kant, about whom Strauss did not write extensively in his published writings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000669585644,"sku":"9780226816807","price":72.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/20396353482268.jpg?v=1763295169"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/series-the-leo-strauss-transcript-series.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}