TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tepper,Aryeh
TI  - Progressive minds, conservative politics: Leo Strauss's later writings on Maimonides 
T2  - SUNY Series in the Thought and Legacy of Leo Strauss
SN  - 9781438448459
AV  - B945.S84 T47 2013eb
U1  - 181/.06 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Strauss, Leo.
KW  - Maimonides, Moses,
KW  - Strauss, Leo
KW  - Dalālat al-ḥāʼirīn (Maimonides, Moses)
KW  - fast
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Jewish philosophy
KW  - Philosophy, Medieval
KW  - Judaïsme
KW  - Philosophie juive
KW  - Philosophie médiévale
KW  - aat
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - Eastern
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The Guide of the Perplexed as a Jewish book -- The Guide of the Perplexed as a work of classical political philosophy -- Torah and philosophy in the book of knowledge
N2  - Leo Strauss (1899-1973), one of the preeminent political philosophers of the twentieth century, was an astute interpreter of Maimonides's medieval masterpiece, The Guide of the Perplexed. In Progressive Minds, Conservative Politics, Aryeh Tepper overturns the conventional view of Strauss's interpretation and of Strauss's own mature thought. According to the scholarly consensus, Strauss traced the well-known contradictions in the Guide to the fundamental tension in Maimonides's mind between reason and revelation, going so far as to suggest that while the Jewish philosopher's overt position was religiously pious (i.e., on the side of "Jerusalem"), secretly he was on the side of reason, or "Athens." In Tepper's analysis, Strauss's judgments emerge as much more complex than this and also more open to revision. In his later writings, Tepper shows, Strauss pointed to contradictions in Maimonides's thought not only between but also within both "Jerusalem" and "Athens." Moreover, Strauss identified, and identified himself with, an esoteric Maimonidean teaching on progress: progress within the Bible, beyond the Bible, and even beyond the rabbinic sages. Politically a conservative thinker, Strauss, like Maimonides, located man's deepest satisfaction in progressing in the discernment of the truth. In the fullness of his career, Strauss thus pointed to a third way beyond the modern alternatives of conservatism and progressivism
UR  - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=692426
ER  -