Natural Right and History

More than a decade ago, after sharing a few bottles of wine, a very dear friend tried to convince me that Judaism is a higher religion than Christianity or Islam. This happened in the famous President’s Bar located on the second floor of the University Club in Chicago. It is a place where similar hi......more

Bearings for travellers in the flow of History Is man endowed with a set of rights not entirely dependant on History and its successive avatars (political regimes, civil societies, revolutions, wars...) but transcending them? To answer such a question, Leo Strauss defines conventionalism (= opinion is......more

از کتاب‌های بسیار مهم و جدی لئو اشتراس است. خوشبختانه دو سال پیش پس از سال‌ها دوباره تجدید چاپ شد. بسیاری از اصول بنیادی تاریخ‌نگاری فلسفه سیاسی اشتراس مانند نقد پیشرفت‌گرایی و نقد تاریخی‌گری و انتقاد جدی از علوم اجتماعی مدرن در این کتاب بیان می‌شود. تنها می‌ماند ترجمه آن. باقر پرهام از مترجمان باسا......more

This is at least my third reading of this book, and I still don't quite get it. It start with an attack on social science that takes aim mostly at Max Weber. "According to our social science, we can be or become wise in all matters of secondary importance, but we have to be resigned to utter ignoranc......more

In NRH, Strauss recovers and valorizes philosophy as a way of life. Examination of the politically urgent question of what is right by nature discloses that natural right is only possible if philosophy in the original sense, as the quest to grasp what is eternal, is possible. Philosophy in this sens......more