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Public spaces, public faiths: Leo Strauss on modernity and the polis.

机译:公共空间,公共信仰:Leo Strauss谈现代与都市。

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Leo Strauss is often said to prefer a "return" to the ancients. He was clearly drawn to the ancient Greeks' understanding of "natural right" and their manner of philosophy. This dissertation, however, redirects attention to a different facet of Strauss's admiration for the Greeks: the ancient city. While obviously admiring Greek philosophy, this work argues that Strauss also found some aspects of Greek political life to be compelling. In particular, Strauss admired the city's small size, its moral seriousness, its preference for an orthodox lifestyle, and its fusion of the public and the sacred. The central argument of this work is that Strauss considered the ancient city to be the most desirable regime and he thought the city might someday return as a possible regime. How did the city regime come to be obsolete in the first place, though? Strauss believes the rise of Christianity to be the culprit. Christianity inadvertently destroyed the idea of the "divine city" and the commitment to fierce patriotism by suggesting that politics is not worth such attention. Instead, the afterlife should be sought. This led to an evolution of regimes beyond the city (chiefly, the modern liberal state) that depreciated the political sphere. However, if the rise of Christianity originally caused the city's decline, what happens if Christianity wanes in the public eye? Strauss suggests that the city could return with a decline in Christianity. This dissertation breaks new ground in establishing Strauss's connection to Christianity and in arguing that the city is his ideal regime.
机译:人们常说里奥·施特劳斯(Leo Strauss)比古人更喜欢“回归”。他清楚地被古希腊人对“自然权利”及其哲学方式的理解所吸引。然而,本文将注意力转移到斯特劳斯对希腊人的钦佩的另一个方面:古城。尽管显然很欣赏希腊哲学,但这项工作认为施特劳斯还发现希腊政治生活的某些方面令人信服。特别是,施特劳斯(Strauss)钦佩这座城市的规模小,道德上的严肃性,对正统生活方式的偏爱以及公众与神圣融合的魅力。这项工作的中心论点是,施特劳斯(Strauss)认为古城是最理想的政权,他认为这座城市有一天可能会作为一种可能的政权回归。但是,城市制度最初是如何过时的?施特劳斯认为基督教的崛起是罪魁祸首。基督教暗示政治不值得引起如此注意,无意中破坏了“神城”的观念和对剧烈爱国主义的承诺。相反,应该寻求来世。这导致了政权在城市之外(主要是现代自由主义国家)的演变,使政治领域贬值。但是,如果基督教的兴起最初是导致这座城市的衰落,那么如果基督教在公众眼中消失,会发生什么呢?施特劳斯(Strauss)表示,这座城市可能会因基督教的衰落而重返社会。这篇论文为建立施特劳斯与基督教之间的联系以及主张这座城市是他的理想政权开辟了新的领域。

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  • 作者

    Paskewich, J. Christopher.;

  • 作者单位

    University of Connecticut.;

  • 授予单位 University of Connecticut.;
  • 学科 Political Science General.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2009
  • 页码 148 p.
  • 总页数 148
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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