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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hassell Street Press (September 9, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 204 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1013470362
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1013470363
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.14 x 0.43 x 9.21 inches

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Writing a book on VIRTUECRATIC GLOBAL LEVIATHAN, I go systematically through recent writings on Hobbes. In
many respects, on rereading this classical book by Strauss, I found it the most insightful of all.

Professor Yehezkel Dror
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I read somewhere that Strauss carried this book in a water-tight container when he crossed the channel to England so that, even if the ship went down, his work would survive. However that may be, it is the rare opportunity to see Strauss genuinely struggle with a problem. The prevailing opinion, I am told, is that Hobbes' science, or the discovery of Galileo's analytic-synthetic method, was the origin of Hobbes political philosophy (the analysis of the prevailing order (state of nature), the synthesis or construction of a new order (Leviathan)). Strauss makes the convincing argument that not the scientific method, but instead Aristotelian humanism (in particular, the anthropology of the Rhetoric) was the "source" for Hobbes' Staatslehre. Central to this is a critique of aristocratism, and the aristocratic valorization of courage. Not courage but cowardice and the fear of death is the ruling passion of the Hobbesian bourgeois (if Bloom learned anything from Strauss, it was that). In particular, Hobbes borrowed from the Rhetoric the treatment of anger, in which the most asocial human passion is the desire for revenge (and justice). Strauss later repudiated (in Natural Right) the argument against Hobbes scientism, but the point was made.

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I just want to note that quotations from Latin in this book are left untranslated so if you are not familiar with this language, a scholarly reading may require additonal work on your part.

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Neo Conservative philosopher Leo Strauss provides us with a detailed and readable account of the works of one of modern philosophers most influential thinkers. While certain aspects of Hobbes's thinking, such as the superiority of monarchy, may hold little sway with todays elite, his analysis of human nature is as compelling as ever. Strauss provides not only an in depth explanation of this school of thought, but a detailed investigation into Hobbes's inspirations. The only flaw is the frequent Latin quotations (which lack translations) which are of no bennefit to the majority of unclassically educated people.

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