{"product_id":"what-is-political-philosophy-and-other-studies-9780226777139","title":"What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"All political action has . . . in itself a directedness towards knowledge of the good: of the good life  or of the good society. For the good society is the complete political good. If this directedness becomes explicit  if men make it their explicit goal to acquire knowledge of the good life and of the good society  political philosophy emerges. . . . The theme of political philosophy is mankinds great objectives  freedom and government or empireobjectives which are capable of lifting all men beyond their poor selves. Political philosophy is that branch of philosophy which is closest to political life  to non-philosophic life  to human life.\"From \"What Is Political Philosophy?\"  What Is Political Philosophy?a collection of ten essays and lectures and sixteen book reviews written between 1943 and 1957contains some of Leo Strausss most famous writings and some of his most explicit statements of the themes that made him famous. The title essay records Strausss sole extended articulation of the meaning of political philosophy itself. Other essays discuss the relation of political philosophy to history  give an account of the political philosophy of the non-Christian Middle Ages and of classic European modernity  and present his theory of esoteric writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665875558453,"sku":"ByrdShop_0226777138","price":41.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226777139.jpg?v=1782411818","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/what-is-political-philosophy-and-other-studies-9780226777139","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}