Conventional wisdom suggests that the Platonist philosophers of Late Antiquity, from Plotinus (third century) to the sixth-century schools in Athens and Alexandria, neglected the political dimension of their Platonic heritage in their concentration on an otherworldly life. Dominic O'Meara presents a revelatory reappraisal of these thinkers, arguing that their other worldliness ...(展开全部)

One of the outstanding thinkers of our time offers in this book his final words to posterity. Studies in Platonic Political Philosophy was well underway at the time of Leo Strauss's death in 1973. Having chosen the title for the book, he selected the most important writings of his later years and arranged them to clarify the issues in political philosophy that occupied his atte...(展开全部)

彼得·布朗（Peter Brown），普林斯顿大学荣休历史学教授。“古代晚期研究领域的发明者”，权威的奥古斯丁专家，晚期罗马帝国宗教史研究最杰出的历史学家之一。特别关注晚期罗马帝国和早期中世纪欧洲的宗教文化，以及宗教与社会之间的关系。著有The Rise of Western Christendom ；The Body and Society ： Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity ；The World of Late Antiquity ：AD 150-750 等。

Who ought to govern? Why should I obey the law? How should conflict be controlled? What is the proper education for a citizen and a statesman? These questions probe some of the deepest and most enduring problems that every society confronts, regardless of time and place. Today we ask the same crucial questions about law, authority, justice, and freedom that Plato, Aristotle, Ma...(展开全部)

Who ought to govern? Why should I obey the law? How should conflict be controlled? What is the proper education for a citizen and a statesman? These questions probe some of the deepest and most enduring problems that every society confronts, regardless of time and place. Today we ask the same crucial questions about law, authority, justice, and freedom that Plato, Aristotle, Ma...(展开全部)

这是施特劳斯的最后一部作品，由15篇论文、笔记和评论组成。其中只有很少一部分致力于柏拉图作品的研究或者涉及柏拉图的作品。但是，只要仔细阅读这些片段，并重温其中援引的施特劳斯的早前著作，就会发现，这里的每篇作品都是针对柏拉图式政治哲学的研究，都在实现这样一种哲学探索，都是这样一种哲学探索的典范。 目录

Conventional wisdom suggests that the Platonist philosophers of Late Antiquity, from Plotinus (third century) to the sixth-century schools in Athens and Alexandria, neglected the political dimension of their Platonic heritage in their concentration on an otherworldly life. Dominic O'Meara presents a revelatory reappraisal of these thinkers, arguing that their otherworldliness i...(展开全部)

Recent decades have seen a remarkable upsurge of interest in German Idealism in the English-speaking world. However, out of the three leading thinkers of the period directly after Kant--Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel--Schelling has received relatively little attention. In particular, the distinctive philosophical project of Schelling's late period, beginning in the 1820s, has bee...(展开全部)

This book presents a wide-ranging overview of Aristotle's political thought that makes him come alive as a philosopher who can speak to our own times. Beginning with a critique of subjectivist accounts of well-being, Kraut goes on to assess Aristotle's objective and universalistic account of eudaimonia and excellent activity. He offers a detailed interpretation of Aristotle's c...(展开全部)