Title: Ben emet le-neʼemanut
Description: The book Between Truth and Loyalty: Political Philosophy and Judaism in the Thought of Leo StraussIntroduces to the reader the central place of Judaism in the thought of Leo Strauss, who was one of the leading thinkers in the field of the study of political philosophy in the twentieth century. The book carefully examines the roots of Strauss' worldview and the nature of political philosophy. The foundation of this philosophy is in the struggle that has lasted for many generations between the Jewish-biblical political theology, centered on the city of Jerusalem, and the general political philosophy, which originated in Greece, also in antiquity, centered on the city of Athens, the cradle of Western cultural philosophy. The book suggests that the author's opinion is the same as that of Strauss himself, that the disaster of modern society is the adoption of an extreme liberal doctrine of life, according to which the purpose of human life is the extraction of his material pleasures; And hence he concludes that it is incumbent upon us, as human beings and as Jews alike, to connect political theology with political philosophy; The belief in revelation in order to receive moral rules in light of which we will live, with the need for constant doubt and constant existence of a life of study, which will ensure our existence as a society and our recognition of our common history and destiny as Jews.
Subjects: Judaism, Jewish philosophy, Judaism and politics, Philosophy, Jewish ethics
People: Leo Strauss