Platonic Theocracy, Liberalism, and Authoritarianism in Leo Strauss’s Philosophy and Law
Platonic Theocracy, Liberalism, and Authoritarianism in Leo Strauss’s Philosophy and Law
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New York, USA: Cambridge University Press
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Leo Strauss, in Philosophy and Law (1935), offers Platonic theocracy as a more just and stable political alternative to both liberalism and authoritarianism. Rather than merely a scholastic investigation of medieval Jewish and Islamic philosophy, I read the book as a programmatic endorsement of a morally perfectionist political order: a divinely le...
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Platonic Theocracy, Liberalism, and Authoritarianism in Leo Strauss’s Philosophy and Law
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0003-0554
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1537-5943
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10.1017/S0003055420000982
