Natural rights and history

Author: Leo Strauss [USA]
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: The problem of natural rights is one of the most important issues in contemporary political and social philosophy, and this book conducts an extremely meticulous exploration of this topic. The author particularly starts with the classical Plato and Aristotle, revealing the crisis of natural rights under the premise of modern natural rights theory. Like many great thinkers, Leo Strauss is committed to highlighting fundamental intellectual questions that reveal the profound spiritual tension in Western civilization. His critique of positivism, historicism, and liberalism in contemporary thought leads him to engage more deeply in the study of classical political philosophy.