Morality, Nature, and Esotericism in Leo Strauss'sPersecution and the Art of Writing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6400476 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael S Kochin (0000-0001-5934-7242, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 261-284 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6705 • E-ISSN: 1748-6858 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0034670500038092 |
| OpenAlex | W2129596120 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 16 |
Strauss's historical investigation of the use of exoteric writing in Farabi, Maimonides, Halevi, and Spinoza, is in fact his history of the philosophers' exoteric accommodations to the permanent difference in human natures, the difference between the many who require a categorical moral teaching and the few who are capable of ordering their own lives in the face of the hypothetical status of all moral commands. The men of the Enlightenment aspired to render the moral law superfluous for all by constructing a machinery of government powerful enough to compel all to live justly. Strauss critiques this aspiration by leading his reader to face the permanency of the difference between the few and the many. Strauss uses historical scholarship to force the reader to rethink the possibility of contemplation of the eternal or permanent, the possibility that the Enlightenment's historicist epigones have sought to foreclose
Aesthetics · Art · Categorical imperative · Contemplation · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Face (sociological concept · Historicism · Literature · Meditation · Morality · Persecution · Politics · Scholarship · Theology · Law · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Philosophy · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
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| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2012 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |