Isaiah Berlin and Leo Strauss: Notes Toward a Dialogue

IF 0.4 3区社会学 Q4 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Critical Review Pub Date : 2020-10-01 DOI:10.1080/08913811.2020.1891705

Steven R. B. Smith

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Berlin and Strauss shared surprisingly compatible views about four matters of great importance. The first is the need for political philosophy, which Berlin traced to value pluralism and Strauss to the inherent incompleteness and contestability of our knowledge of politics, due to its comprehensive nature. Second, Berlin and Strauss each opposed social-scientific positivism: Berlin, because it contradicts human freedom and responsibility; Strauss, because it depends on an untenable and nihilistic distinction between facts and values. Third, both philosophers wished to place, in the ground currently occupied by positivist political science, the study of statecraft, embodied in such figures as Churchill and FDR. Finally, Berlin and Strauss agreed on what characterizes such statesmen: an intuitive, pretheoretical practical judgment of political particulars.

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柏林和施特劳斯在四个重要问题上的观点惊人地一致。首先是对政治哲学的需要，柏林将其追溯到价值多元主义，施特劳斯将其追溯到我们的政治知识由于其综合性而固有的不完整性和可争议性。其次，柏林和施特劳斯都反对社会科学实证主义:柏林，因为它与人的自由和责任相矛盾;因为它依赖于事实和价值之间站不住脚的虚无主义区分。第三，两位哲学家都希望在实证主义政治学目前占据的基础上，研究丘吉尔和罗斯福等人物所体现的治国方术。最后，柏林和施特劳斯对这些政治家的特征达成了一致:对政治细节的直觉的、理论之前的实践判断。

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Critical Review POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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1.30

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12.50%

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