Note on the Leo Strauss Transcript Project
Editor’s Introduction: Strauss’s Introduction to Political Philosophy
Editorial Headnote
Part One: The Obstacles to the Study of Political Philosophy Today
A. Positivism
Chapter 1: Comte as the Founder of Positivism: The Three Stages of the History of Mankind
Chapter 2: Comte’s Positive Political Philosophy
Chapter 3: Positivism after Comte: Simmel
Chapter 4: Value-Free Social Science: Weber
Chapter 5: Strauss’s Responses to Contemporary Defenses of the Fact-Value Distinction
B. Historicism
Chapter 6: Historicism as the More Serious Challenge to Political Philosophy
Chapter 7: R. G. Collingwood as an Example
Part Two: Why Studying the History of Political Philosophy Is Necessary Today
Chapter 8: On the Difference between the Ancients and the Moderns
Part Three: The Origins of Political Philosophy
Chapter 9:
Physis and
Nomos
Notes
Index