{"id":273,"date":"2021-10-14T15:31:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T15:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oliveribanks.com\/?p=273"},"modified":"2021-10-14T15:31:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T15:31:07","slug":"the-rebirth-of-classical-political-rationalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oliveribanks.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/14\/the-rebirth-of-classical-political-rationalism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Leo Strauss, 1989<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:150px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Strauss takes up the Socratic method to advocate for an invigoration of political philosophy based on his critique of political <em>theory<\/em>. He argues that political theory adopts its moniker as it interprets politics as contestation between divergent groups; rather than conducting reflexive analysis of the basis of the political itself. Part of his contention is in concordance with mid-century continental philosophers. Strauss does remark that the basis for the &#8220;meeting of the East and West&#8221; is in the Heideggerian study of being; and he embraces Heidegger&#8217;s radical and existentialist approach to politics for exposing the flaws and contingent superficiality of political rationalism. However, as the introduction notes, he does not go so far as to offer a complete, nihilistic rejection, and turns to both Medieval thinkers like Spinoza and back to the Greeks to reconstruct the political philosophy discipline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:87px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leo Strauss, 1989<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,80,81],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antelibrary","tag-philosophy","tag-political-theory","tag-rationalism","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliveribanks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliveribanks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliveribanks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliveribanks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliveribanks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oliveribanks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/oliveribanks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliveribanks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliveribanks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliveribanks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}