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Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion (Hardcover)
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Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion (Hardcover)
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Heinrich Meier's guiding insight in Political Philosophy and the
Challenge of Revealed Religion is that philosophy must prove its
right and its necessity in the face of the claim to truth and
demand obedience of its most powerful opponent, revealed religion.
Philosophy must rationally justify and politically defend its free
and unreserved questioning, and, in doing so, turns decisively to
political philosophy. In the first of three chapters, Meier
determines four intertwined moments constituting the concept of
political philosophy as an articulated and internally dynamic
whole. The following two chapters develop the concept through the
interpretation of two masterpieces of political philosophy that
have occupied Meier's attention for more than thirty years: Leo
Strauss's Thoughts on Machiavelli and Jean-Jacques Rousseau's
Social Contract. Meier provides a detailed investigation of
Thoughts on Machiavelli, with an appendix containing Strauss's
original manuscript headings for each of his paragraphs. Linking
the problem of Socrates (the origin of political philosophy) with
the problem of Machiavelli (the beginning of modern political
philosophy), while placing between them the political and
theological claims opposed to philosophy, Strauss's most complex
and controversial book proves to be, as Meier shows, the most
astonishing treatise on the challenge of revealed religion. The
final chapter, which offers a new interpretation of the Social
Contract, demonstrates that Rousseau's most famous work can be
adequately understood only as a coherent political-philosophic
response to theocracy in all its forms.
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