学术资讯｜政治哲学工作坊第五十三讲　列奥·施特劳斯：作为第一哲学的政治哲学

主办： 中山大学哲学系（珠海）

Organizer:  Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai)，Sun Yat-sen University

主题： 列奥·施特劳斯： 作为第一哲学的政治哲学（线上）

Topic:  Leo Strauss: Political Philosophy as First Philosophy  (Virtual）

主讲： Catherine Zuckert 圣母大学政治学系教授

Speaker:  Catherine Zuckert, Nancy Reeves Dreux Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame．

主持： Jun-Hyeok KWAK （郭峻赫）中山大学哲学系（珠海）教授

Moderator:  Jun-Hyeok KWAK, Professor, Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University

时间： 2023年6月15日21:00-23:00

Time:  June 15th 2023 21:00-23:00

地点： 腾讯会议

会议号： 637-363-204

ID： 637-363-204

Leo Strauss was one of the German émigrés who brought 20th century continental philosophy to the United States when they fled Hitler in the 1930s.  He spent most of his American career at two universities:  the New School for Social Research and the University of Chicago.  Although he had written several books in Europe prior to his arrival in America his American writings brought him most notice. These include Persecution and the Art of Writing, Natural Right and History, Thoughts on Machiavelli (1958), and The City and Man (1964). All of his works fit under the broad rubric of political philosophy.  Indeed, Strauss went so far as to claim that political philosophy, properly understood, was itself “first philosophy” (CM 20).  To understand what he meant by that novel, puzzling claim we need to understand  (1) why he thought that the crisis of our times (or of the West) was a crisis of and for political philosophy; (2) why he argued that a  return to premodern thought was the proper response to that crisis; and finally, (3) in what sense he understood political philosophy to be first philosophy.

列奥·施特劳斯（Leo Strauss）是把欧陆哲学带到美国的德国移民之一，他们在1930年代逃离希特勒统治时将20世纪的欧陆哲学带到了美国。 施特劳斯在美国的大部分职业生涯都在两所大学度过： 新学院的社会研究学院和芝加哥大学。 虽然他到美国之前已经在欧洲写了几本书，但他在美国发表的著作才真正让他声名鹊起。 其中包括《迫害与写作艺术》《自然权利与历史》《关于马基雅维利的思考》（1958）和《城邦与人》（1964）。他所有的作品都属于广泛意义上的政治哲学。 事实上，施特劳斯甚至声称，政治哲学本身就是名副其实的“第一哲学”（CM 20）。 要理解施特劳斯这一新奇的、令人费解的观点，我们需要明白（1）为什么他认为我们这个时代（或西方）的危机是政治哲学的危机;（2）为什么他认为回归前现代思想是恰当的应对危机方式;最后，（3）在什么意义上，他把政治哲学理解为第一哲学。

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