LEO STRAUSS

LA JUSTICIA Y EL BIEN

Abstract

Leo Strauss approached the tension between philosophy and revelation from different angles throughout his extensive work. I could not begin this article without omitting the essential analysis from classical philosophy and especially from Plato (and then continue with Maimonides, Spinoza and Levinas). The analysis of "Platonic idealism", of what results in its distinctive construction of both his philosophy and his political philosophy, is undoubtedly the "doctrine of ideas": the idea of ​​"justice" and the idea of ​​"good" . Strauss will maintain -both in his analysis of "The Laws" and "The Republic" -which we will work on in particular later- that there is an idea of ​​virtue. What Strauss calls into question is the notion that ideas, and in particular the idea of ​​justice, could subsist by themselves, in a different realm from that of human beings. Like a good philosopher, he questions the theological dimension of the doctrine -which provides a solid way of conceiving the experience of the nature of things- the one that faces the natural dimension.