Reading Leo Strauss: Politics, Philosophy, Judaism
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Smith asserts that this philosophical skepticism defined Strauss’s thought. It was as a skeptic, Smith argues, that Strauss considered the seemingly irreconcilable conflict between reason and revelation—a conflict Strauss dubbed the “theologico-political problem.” Calling this problem “the theme of my investigations,” Strauss asked the same fundamental question throughout his life: what is the relation of the political order to revelation in general and Judaism in particular? Smith organizes his book with this question, first addressing Strauss’s views on religion and then examining his thought on philosophical and political issues.
In his investigation of these philosophical and political issues, Smith assesses Strauss’s attempt to direct the teaching of political science away from the examination of mass behavior and interest group politics and toward the study of the philosophical principles on which politics are based. With his provocative, lucid essays, Smith goes a long way toward establishing a distinctive form of Straussian liberalism.
Steven B. Smith
Steven B. Smith is chairman, president and chief executive officer of In2M Corporation, a financial software and services company that he co-founded. For the past fifteen years, he has been actively involved in assisting and educating people in personal and small business financial management. Before starting In2M, Smith served as a senior member of the executive team at Megahertz Corporation. He also helped found two additional successful ventures, Floppy Copy and DeltaValve. Smith holds a finance degree from the University of Utah.
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