The Closing Of The Early Modern Mind: Leo Strauss And Early Modern Political Thought

Animus 3:211-226 (1998)
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This paper argues that underlying Leo Strauss's interpretation of Early Modern political thought as premised on a break with nature as a moral standard is a contemporary moral and political phenomenology which inhibits the understanding of that period in its own terms

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Philosophy and Politics, II.Victor Gourevitch - 1968 - Review of Metaphysics 22 (2):281 - 328.

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