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Title Leo Strauss and his Catholic readers / edited by Geoffrey M. Vaughan
Published Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, [2018]
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Contents Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1. Encounters with Leo Strauss and Natural Right; 1. Reason, Faith, and Law: Catholic Encounters with Leo Strauss; 2. Wine with Plato and Hemlock with Socrates": Charles McCoy's Dialogue with Leo Strauss and the Character of Thomistic Political Philosophy; 3. Wisdom and Folly: Reconsidering Leo Strauss on the Natural Law; 4. Modernity, Creation, and Catholicism: Leo Strauss and Benedict XVI; 5. Leo Strauss's Critique of Modern Political Philosophy and Ernest Fortin's Critique of Modern "Catholic Social Teaching."
Part 2. Leo Strauss and Catholic Concerns6. The Mutual Concerns of Leo Straussand His Catholic Contemporaries: D'Entrèves, McCoy, Simon; 7. On the Catholic Audience of Leo Strauss; 8. The Possible Harmony of Reason and Revelation in Politics and Philosophy: A Catholic Reading of Leo Strauss's "Progress or Return?"; 9. What Might a Catholic Reader Learn from Strauss about Catholicism?: On the Supposed Distinction of Natural Right and Natural Law; 10. The Influence of Historicism on Catholic Theology; Part 3. Leo Strauss on Christianity, Politics, and Philosophy
11. The City and the Whole: Remarks on the Limits and the Seriousness of the Political in Strauss's Thought12. Aristotelian Metaphysics and Modern Science: Leo Strauss on What Nature Is; 13. Strauss and Pascal: Is Discussion Possible?; 14. Leo Strauss's Profound and Fragile Critique of Christianity; Bibliography; Contributors; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 7, 2018)
Subject Strauss, Leo -- Influence
Strauss, Leo -- Religion
SUBJECT Strauss, Leo fast
Subject Political science -- Philosophy.
Christianity and politics -- Catholic Church.
Catholic learning and scholarship.
Catholics -- Intellectual life.
RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
PHILOSOPHY -- Political.
Catholic learning and scholarship
Catholics -- Intellectual life
Christianity and politics -- Catholic Church
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Political science -- Philosophy
Religion
Form Electronic book
Author Vaughan, Geoffrey M., 1969- editor.
ISBN 9780813230443
0813230446