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Leo Strauss and his Catholic readers

Title
Leo Strauss and his Catholic readers / edited by Geoffrey M. Vaughan.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2018]

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Additional Authors
Vaughan, Geoffrey M., 1969-
Description
xi, 345 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Strauss, Leo > Influence
  • Strauss, Leo > Religion
  • Political science > Philosophy
  • Christianity and politics > Catholic Church
  • Catholic learning and scholarship
  • Catholics > Intellectual life
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part 1: Encounters with Leo Strauss and natural right. Reason, faith, and law: Catholic encounters with Leo Strauss / Robert P. Kraynak -- "Wine with Plato and hemlock with Socrates": Charles McCoy's dialogue with Leo Strauss and the character of thomistic political philosophy / V. Bradley Lewis -- Wisdom and folly: reconsidering Leo Strauss on the natural law / Geoffrey M. Vaughan -- Modernity, creation, and Catholicism: Leo Strauss and Benedict XVI / Marc D. Guerra -- Leo Strauss's critique of modern political philosophy and Ernest Fortin's critique of modern "Catholic social teaching" / Douglas Kries -- part 2: Leo Strauss and Catholic concerns. The mutual concerns of Leo Strauss and his Catholic contemporaries: D'Entrèves, McCoy, Simon / Gladden J. Pappin -- On the Catholic audience of Leo Strauss / John P. Hittinger -- The possible harmony of reason and revelation in politics and philosophy: a Catholic reading of Leo Strauss's "Progress or return?" / Carson Holloway -- What might a Catholic reader learn from Strauss about Catholicism? On the supposed distinction of natural right and natural law / Gary D. Glenn -- The influence of historicism on Catholic theology / J. Brian Benestad -- part 3: Leo Strauss on Christianity, politics, and philosophy. The city and the whole: remarks on the limits and the seriousness of the political in Strauss's thought / Giulio De Ligio -- Aristotelian metaphysics and modern science: Leo Strauss on what nature is / James R. Stoner Jr. -- Strauss and Pascal: is discussion possible? / Philippe Bénéton -- Leo Strauss's profound and fragile critique of Christianity / Ralph C. Hancock.
Call Number
JFE 18-6686
ISBN
  • 9780813230436
  • 0813230438
LCCN
2018007868
OCLC
1020029862
Title
Leo Strauss and his Catholic readers / edited by Geoffrey M. Vaughan.
Publisher
Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2018]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Vaughan, Geoffrey M., 1969- editor.
Research Call Number
JFE 18-6686
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