VOlUME 05 ISSUE 04 APRIL 2022
Dimitrios Karakoulas
Classical Philologist, MSc, Doctoral Researcher - PhD Candidate at National Technical University of Athens
DOI : https://doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v5-i4-29
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ABSTRACT
The article deals with the influence of Plato and Aristotle on the philosophical work and thought of Leo Strauss. Significant issues are approached, which are directly related to the Platonic and Aristotelian views of politics, always in connection with the direct crisis of nihilism brought about by the age of modernity. The interpretations given should be taken as a result of Strauss's own research into the history of philosophy in an attempt to deal with political problems philosophically. Given that Strauss's approach to Platonic and Aristotelian texts is unorthodox, the philosopher attempts to address complex political issues through the scope of their reinterpretation in a selectively synthetic way.
KEYWORDS:Aristotle, historicism, Leo Strauss, modernity, philosophy, Plato, political philosophy.
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