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• W428191566 abstract "LEO STRAUSS'S UNFINISHED MANUSCRIPT, Hobbes' Critique of Religion (1933-34), which Gabriel Bartlett and Svetozar Minkov have now translated into English, (1) belongs to the period that Strauss identifies as the crucial one in his intellectual development, when he underwent what he calls, in the 1965 preface to Spinoza's Critique of Religion, his of orientation. (2) He moved at this time from the premise that a return to premodern philosophy was impossible to the recognition that such a return is possible. That change had as foundation the recognition, noted in his review of Carl Schmitt's Concept of the Political, that the modern attempt to see human evil as bestial and hence innocent evil was inferior to the starting point of Socratic dialectic, wherein evil is seen as moral depravity. (3) The unpublished and unfinished Hobbes manuscript from this period provides us with some important, if provisional, results of the ten-year study of Hobbes that Strauss undertook in his effort to understand the roots of the peculiar situation at which the project of modem rationalism had arrived. In it, Strauss argues that Hobbes's positivist-phenomenalist science (that is, what Strauss in HCR calls methodological materialism or hypothetical materialism) is a result of the somewhat unexpected realization that, as a working hypothesis, the omnipotent God has to be assumed to be behind nature, rendering nature unintelligible. That is, Strauss argues that according to Hobbes, the doctrine of an omnipotent God creating the world ex nihilo at each moment--a doctrine that Calvin, as well as the Islamic Kalam, had come to adopt--had to be initially granted as a possibility, if revelation were to be refuted. Twenty years later, in Natural Right and History, chapter five, Strauss offers what appears to be a different account of the origin of Hobbes's natural science; he there argues that it resulted from Hobbes's recognition of the impossibility, for knowledge of anything, of conceiving of mind as derivative from matter and hence subject to the flux of mechanical causation, as both Hobbes and some pre-Socratics had wished to conceive of mind. (4) This article examines the similarities and differences between the two arguments, and attempts to explain why and to what extent Strauss abandoned his earlier argument in favor of the one he later articulated in Natural Right and History. I To better grasp the intention of the earlier work, it may be helpful to consider first Strauss's remarks about immediate predecessor, Spinoza's Critique of Religion. Both books manifest what Strauss later (in his 1965 German Preface to The Political Philosophy of Hobbes) describes as his interest in theology, an interest prompted by the failure of modem philosophic rationalism's attempt to liberate the West from biblical revelation and direct it by rational norms. (5) As Thomas Pangle has shown in his very helpful explication of that preface and of the Strauss letter to Gerhard Kruger of January 7, 1930, (6) Strauss understood his Spinoza's Critique of Religion to be a book on Heidegger, in two senses. First, it was originally conceived from a position that was fundamentally Heideggerian as regards the theological question: Strauss himself continued, as he tells Kruger, to have the (Wille) and (Gesinnung) of the Enlightenment, and Strauss understood that will or stance to have reached its completion in Being and Time--I mean in the interpretation of the call of conscience, and in the answer given there to the question of who is calling, that is, the atheistic answer. Second, Strauss undertook an explication of the historical forms of pre-Heideggerian philosophic atheism precisely in order to clarify the various grounds of Heidegger's atheistic predecessors; the resulting work clarified the various modem versions of the Epicurean will, the (Gesinnung) that he found merely presupposed in, though meant to be vindicated by, Heidegger's Dasein-interpretation, a stance Heidegger himself had failed to bring to light. …" @default.
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