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Hilb, Claudia
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spa
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338 p.
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Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 4.0 Internacional (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
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Abstract
In this research, we aim to study Leo Strauss's interpretation of Machiavelli as presented in his book, Thoughts on Machiavelli (1958). In this book, Strauss describes Machiavelli as the thinker who begins a process of decay and estrangement of political philosophy in the West. Simultaneously, Strauss describes Machiavelli as the thinker who sets in motion one of the greatest projects of recovery of classical thought. The question that this research tries to answer is how to reconcile these seemingly contradictory characterizations of Machiavelli. To address this question, we suggest the following hypothesis: a close reading of Strauss's interpretation of Machiavelli presents the thinker as a political philosopher. According to our interpretation, Strauss's Machiavelli emerges as a thinker who seeks to recover philosophy’s autonomy, absorbed by the biblical tradition, and provide a teaching for posterity that would allow and encourage philosophizing. In order to address this question, we explore those aspects that, in our view, reveal the philosophical nature of Machiavelli’s thought according to Strauss. We focus first on the foundation of Machiavelli's philosophy, which implicates him in a debate with the premises of revelation; secondly, on Machiavelli's art of writing, which is based on a fundamental understanding of the difference between human natures; and lastly, on Machiavelli's reflection on the problem of virtue, which contains a discussion of the question of the good and the bad, the just and the unjust. However, a tension between recovery and innovation remains in Strauss's interpretation of Machiavelli. To navigate this tension, we will argue that it is necessary to bear in mind that, for Strauss, a philosophical thinker can, at the same time, recover "classical" questions, which permanently challenge all thinkers' minds, and offer a novel teaching in line with what he considers necessary for his time.
Título obtenido
Doctora de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales