Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Note on the Leo Strauss Transcript Project vii
4. Editor’s Introduction xi
5. Editorial Headnote xxxvii
6. I The Obstacles to the Study of Political Philosophy Today
7. A. Positivism
8. 1 Comte as the Founder of Positivism: 5
9. 2 Comte’s Positive Political Philosophy 26
10. 3 Positivism after Comte: 48
11. 4 Value- Free Social Science: 71
12. 5 Strauss’s Responses to Contemporary Defenses of the Fact- Value Distinction 96
13. B. Historicism
14. 6 Historicism as the More Serious Challenge to Political Philosophy 123
15. 7 R. G. Collingwood as an Example 144
16. II Why Studying the History of Political Philosophy Is Necessary Today
17. 8 On the Difference between the Ancients and the Moderns 169
18. III The Origins of Political Philosophy
19. 9 Physis and Nomos 193
20. Notes 213
21. Index 227