The Dispute about Political Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes in the Twentieth Century: Leo Strauss vs Quentin Skinner

Student: Zyryanov Aleksandr

Educational Programme: Philosophical Anthropology (Master)

Final Grade: 7

Year of Graduation: 2016

This study focuses on the "dispute" Leo Strauss and Quentin Skinner on political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. Their methodology of studing political philosophy differ significantly from each other (or even directly opposite to each other), but they are often interested in the same range of issues. Thomas Hobbes writings appeared to be a link between the two scientists. "Dispute" Strauss and Skinner on the political philosophy of Hobbes becomes an argument about the methodology, therefore, in this paper considerable attention is paid to the analysis of two variants of a methodology for working with texts of thinkers of the past.

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