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Leo Strauss’s “Jerusalem and Athens” (1950): Three Lectures Delivered at Hillel House, Chicago
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Laurenz Denker
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June 28, 2022
Abstract
For the first time, this edition presents Leo Strauss’s Hillel House lecture series on “Jerusalem and Athens.” The three lectures, delivered in the fall of 1950, investigate the agreement, disagreement, and conflict between the biblical and the philosophic “ways of life”: “Philosophy in the full sense is [...] incompatible with the biblical way of life. Philosophy and the Bible are the alternatives or the antagonists in the drama of the human soul. Each of the two antagonists claims to know the truth, namely, the decisive truths, the truths regarding the right way of life. But there can be only one truth, and, hence, conflict is inevitable.”
Keywords: Leo Strauss; Jerusalem and Athens; Judaism; reason; revelation; political philosophy; political theology
Published Online: 2022-06-28
Published in Print: 2022-06-27
© 2022 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
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Keywords for this article
Leo Strauss;
Jerusalem and Athens;
Judaism;
reason;
revelation;
political philosophy;
political theology
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- Frontmatter
- Essays/Aufsätze
- Two Ships Passing in the Night? A Historical Analysis of Nietzsche’s Inauspicious ‘Non-Engagement’ with the Writings of Kierkegaard with Respect to Truth
- Die Entstehung der ungarischen traditionellen Theologie
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- Source Document/Edition
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- Reviews/Rezensionen
- The Crucible of German Democracy. Ernst Troeltsch and the First World War
- The Oxford Handbook of Reinhold Niebuhr
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Auf dem Weg zur Freiheit. Ein Portrait
- Gesammelte Schriften, Band I: Komparatistik im Spannungsfeld von Philologie und Philosophie
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