Leo Strauss on political philosophy: responding to the challenge of positivism and historicism

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Intro; Contents; Note on the Leo Strauss Transcript Project; Editor's Introduction: Strauss's Introduction to Political Philosophy; Editorial Headnote; I. The Obstacles to the Study of Political Philosophy Today; A. Positivism; 1. Comte as the Founder of Positivism: The Three Stages of the History of Mankind; 2. Comte's Positive Political Philosophy; 3. Positivism after Comte: Simmel; 4. Value-Free Social Science: Weber; 5. Strauss's Responses to Contemporary Defenses of the Fact-Value Distinction; B. Historicism; 6. Historicism as the More Serious Challenge to Political Philosophy. Intro Contents Note on the Leo Strauss Transcript Project Editor's Introduction: Strauss's Introduction to Political Philosophy Editorial Headnote I. The Obstacles to the Study of Political Philosophy Today A. Positivism 1. Comte as the Founder of Positivism: The Three Stages of the History of Mankind 2. Comte's Positive Political Philosophy 3. Positivism after Comte: Simmel 4. Value-Free Social Science: Weber 5. Strauss's Responses to Contemporary Defenses of the Fact-Value Distinction B. Historicism 6. Historicism as the More Serious Challenge to Political Philosophy. 7. R.G. Collingwood as an ExampleII. Why Studying the History of Political Philosophy Is Necessary Today 8. On the Difference between the Ancients and the Moderns III. The Origins of Political Philosophy 9. Physis and Nomos Notes Index.