Read Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion

Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion

Heinrich Meier

4.9/5 (9613 ratings)

Description:Heinrich Meier’s guiding insight in Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion is that philosophy must prove its right and its necessity in the face of the claim to truth and demand obedience of its most powerful opponent, revealed religion. Philosophy must rationally justify and politically defend its free and unreserved questioning, and, in doing so, turns decisively to political philosophy. In the first of three chapters, Meier determines four intertwined moments constituting the concept of political philosophy as an articulated and internally dynamic whole. The following two chapters develop the concept through the interpretation of two masterpieces of political philosophy that have occupied Meier’s attention for more than thirty years: Leo Strauss’s Thoughts on Machiavelli and Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Social Contract. Meier provides a detailed investigation of Thoughts on Machiavelli, with an appendix containing Strauss’s original manuscript headings for each of his paragraphs. Linking the problem of Socrates (the origin of political philosophy) with the problem of Machiavelli (the beginning of modern political philosophy), while placing between them the political and theological claims opposed to philosophy, Strauss’s most complex and controversial book proves to be, as Meier shows, the most astonishing treatise on the challenge of revealed religion. The final chapter, which offers a new interpretation of the Social Contract, demonstrates that Rousseau’s most famous work can be adequately understood only as a coherent political-philosophic response to theocracy in all its forms.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion. To get started finding Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 022627585X

Description: Heinrich Meier’s guiding insight in Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion is that philosophy must prove its right and its necessity in the face of the claim to truth and demand obedience of its most powerful opponent, revealed religion. Philosophy must rationally justify and politically defend its free and unreserved questioning, and, in doing so, turns decisively to political philosophy. In the first of three chapters, Meier determines four intertwined moments constituting the concept of political philosophy as an articulated and internally dynamic whole. The following two chapters develop the concept through the interpretation of two masterpieces of political philosophy that have occupied Meier’s attention for more than thirty years: Leo Strauss’s Thoughts on Machiavelli and Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Social Contract. Meier provides a detailed investigation of Thoughts on Machiavelli, with an appendix containing Strauss’s original manuscript headings for each of his paragraphs. Linking the problem of Socrates (the origin of political philosophy) with the problem of Machiavelli (the beginning of modern political philosophy), while placing between them the political and theological claims opposed to philosophy, Strauss’s most complex and controversial book proves to be, as Meier shows, the most astonishing treatise on the challenge of revealed religion. The final chapter, which offers a new interpretation of the Social Contract, demonstrates that Rousseau’s most famous work can be adequately understood only as a coherent political-philosophic response to theocracy in all its forms.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion. To get started finding Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion

Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion

More Books

Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss: The Hidden Dialogue

Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss: The Hidden Dialogue

Leo Strauss and the Theologico-Political Problem (Modern European Philosophy)

Leo Strauss and the Theologico-Political Problem (Modern European Philosophy)

The Lesson of Carl Schmitt: Four Chapters on the Distinction between Political Theology and Political Philosophy

The Lesson of Carl Schmitt: Four Chapters on the Distinction between Political Theology and Political Philosophy

On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life: Reflections on Rousseau's R??veries in Two Books by Heinrich Meier (2016-04-01)

On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life: Reflections on Rousseau's R??veries in Two Books by Heinrich Meier (2016-04-01)

In Other Words: Transcultural Studies in Philology, Translation and Lexicology Presented to Hans Heinrich Meier on the Occasion of His Sixty Fifth B

In Other Words: Transcultural Studies in Philology, Translation and Lexicology Presented to Hans Heinrich Meier on the Occasion of His Sixty Fifth B

Die Strassennamen der Stadt Braunschweig 1904 [Leather Bound]

Die Strassennamen der Stadt Braunschweig 1904 [Leather Bound]

Rare Antique Leo Strauss / Philosophie und Gesetz -- Fruhe Schriften 1st thus / in DJ VG copy [Hardcover] Leo Strauss; Wiebke Meier and Heinrich Meier [eds

Rare Antique Leo Strauss / Philosophie und Gesetz -- Fruhe Schriften 1st thus / in DJ VG copy [Hardcover] Leo Strauss; Wiebke Meier and Heinrich Meier [eds

Person (Siemens): Heinrich Von Pierer, Heinrich Meier, Emil Gansser, Armin Mohler, Klaus Kleinfeld, John Rabe, Rudolf Bingel

Person (Siemens): Heinrich Von Pierer, Heinrich Meier, Emil Gansser, Armin Mohler, Klaus Kleinfeld, John Rabe, Rudolf Bingel

Diskurs über die Ungleichheit. Discours sur l'inègalité. Kritische Ausgabe des integralen Textes. Mit sämtlichen Fragmenten und ergänzenden Materialien nach den Originalausgaben u. den Handschriften neu ediert, übersetzt u. kommentiert von Heinrich Meier.

Diskurs über die Ungleichheit. Discours sur l'inègalité. Kritische Ausgabe des integralen Textes. Mit sämtlichen Fragmenten und ergänzenden Materialien nach den Originalausgaben u. den Handschriften neu ediert, übersetzt u. kommentiert von Heinrich Meier.