Open AccessLEO STRAUSS AND THE CHARACTER OF CLASSICAL POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Author(s) -
Richard Romeiro Oliveira
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
síntese
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2176-9389
pISSN - 0103-4332
DOI - 10.20911/21769389v48n151p531/2021
Subject(s) - contemplation , politics , ideal (ethics) , character (mathematics) , political philosophy , meaning (existential) , interpretation (philosophy) , epistemology , philosophy , moral character , aesthetics , sociology , environmental ethics , law , political science , mathematics , linguistics , geometry
This paper aims to present Leo Strauss’s interpretation of the meaning of classical political philosophy. To this end, the paper will try to show how, for Strauss, classical political philosophy, emerging from the original conflict that opposes philosophic reason to the authorized opinions of the city, was organized as a fundamentally esoteric teaching that sought to make the practical and moral demands of political life, expressed exemplarily in the ideal of best regime, compatible with the defense of contemplative life as the most perfect and happy life for man.