Tehran – A Persian translation of the book “Hobbes’ Political Philosophy: Its Fundamentals and Its Genesis,” written by Leo Strauss, was released in Iranian bookstores.
Yashar Jeyrani translated the book, and Ghoghnoos Publishing House published it on 246 pages, Ilna reported.
In this classical analysis, Leo Strauss identifies what is original and innovative in Thomas Hobbes’ political philosophy. He argues that Hobbes’ ideas stem from his own deep knowledge and experience of humanity, not tradition or science.
Tracing Hobbes’s moral doctrine development from his early works to his major work, Leviathan, Strauss explains the body contradictions of Hobbes’ works, including Hobbes and Plato, Aristotel, Descartes, Spinoza, Discover an incredible connection to Hegel’s ideas.
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is the best known British philosopher in his 1651 book Leviathan, and explains the influential formulation of social contract theory. He is considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy.
Hobbes witnessed the destruction and cruelty of the British civil war between 1642 and 1651 between lawmakers and royalists. This had a major impact on the defense of “Leviasan”‘s absolute sovereign governance as a solution to human conflict and social disruption. Apart from social contract theory, “Leviathan” popularized ideas such as the state of nature (all wars) and the laws of nature.
Hobbes contributed to a wide range of fields including history, law, geometry, optics, theology, classical translation, ethics, and philosophy, and generally marked him as a polymer. Despite the controversy and challenges, including atheistic accusations and controversial debates with contemporaries, Hobbes’ work had a major influence on his understanding of political structure and humanity.
Leo Strauss (1899-1973) was an American scholar of political philosophy. Born in Germany to Jewish parents, Strauss later moved from Germany to the United States. He spent much of his career as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he taught several generations of students and published 15 books.
Trained with Ernst Cassiler in the Neocantian tradition and immersed in the work of phenomenologists Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, Strauss wrote books on Spinoza and Hobbes, as well as articles on Maimonides and Al Farabi.
In the late 1930s, his work focused on the texts of Plato and Aristotle, tracing their interpretations through medieval Islamic and Jewish philosophy, encouraging the application of those ideas to modern political theory.
Strauss’s ideas are characterized by two main themes: a critique of modernity and a restoration of classical political philosophy. He noted that modernity, especially in the work of Niccolo Machiavelli, among Italian city-states in the 15th century, was a fundamental departure from the tradition of Western civilization, and that of nihilism, relativism, historicism, and science. He claimed it led to a crisis.
He says that modern political and social science, based on empirical observations and rational analysis, cannot grasp the essential issues of human nature, morality, and justice, reducing human beings to mere objects of manipulation and calculation. He claimed that it was. He also criticized modern liberalism. Modern liberalism was seen as a product of modernity due to its lack of moral and spiritual foundations, and its tendency to undermine the authority of religion, tradition and natural law.
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