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Laws
Leo Strauss
Political Philosophy
Hermeneutics
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The movement of thought in Leo Strauss's Argument and the Action of Plato’s Laws allows one basic motif of the engagement with Plato to be rendered visible: the significance of the human body as presupposition and condition of politics and lawgiving. In the present treatment the political significance of the body in Strauss’s engagement with Plato allows the significance of embodiment to emerge clearly. Strauss's hermeneutic approach to the Laws is developed (in section 2). The options of “philosophic politics” that Strauss plays out with the example of Plato’s Laws is developed in section 3. Finally, from this point the question of power is developed. Namely, with the question of power, the problem is pushed to the level of the relation between law and reason. What possibilities are there for philosophic politics to decide the question of power for itself?
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