In:
The Review of Politics, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 70, No. 2 ( 2008), p. 245-259
Abstract:
The essay reconsiders the argument of Leo Strauss in Natural Right and History with “radical historicism” and above all its leading representative, Martin Heidegger. Strauss's critique of such historicism is not motivated by the need to recover a teleological natural philosophy for the grounding of natural right. Strauss's turn to “the fundamental problems coeval with human thought” is in accord with Heidegger's claim that the whole is mysterious. His reservation rather concerns Heidegger's attempt, both longing and hopeful, to show that radical questioning of rationalism can solve the problem of philosophy's homelessness in human affairs, thereby taking further modern efforts to make humans “absolutely at home on earth.” In Strauss's judgment Socratic knowledge of ignorance is more authentically open to the aporetic character of the human relation to Being.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0034-6705
,
1748-6858
DOI:
10.1017/S0034670508000326
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date:
2008
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2066971-9
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209904-4
SSG:
3,6
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