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In this classic analysis, Leo Strauss pinpoints what is original and innovative in the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. He argues that Hobbes's ideas arose not from tradition or science but from his own deep knowledge and experience of human nature. Tracing the development of Hobbes's moral doctrine from his early writings to his major work The Leviathan, Strauss explains contradictions in the body of Hobbes's work and discovers startling connections between Hobbes and the thought of Plato, Thucydides, Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza, and Hegel.

I / Philosophy Between the Two Wars -- 1 The Lwow School -- 2 The Warsaw School -- 3 Other Schools and Other Philosophers -- 4 Marxian Tradition -- 5 Sociology and Social Philosophy -- Notes to Part I -- II / The Period of Reconstruction and the Rise of Marxism-Leninism -- 6 The Philosophical Revival -- 7 The Beginning of Marxist-Leninist Philosophy -- Notes to Part II -- III / The Years of Militancy -- 8 The Road to Ascendancy -- 9 The Instrumentalist Conception of Philosophy -- 10 Criticism of the Warsaw School -- 11 Phenomenology from the Marxist-Leninist Standpoint -- 12 Criticism of Znaniecki's Sociology and the Decline of Social Inquiry -- Notes to Part III -- IV / Formal Logic and Dialectics -- 13 The Superiority of Dialectics -- 14 Change, Motion, and Contradiction -- 15 The Abandonment of the Logic of Contradiction -- Notes to Part IV -- V / The Materialistic Theory of Knowledge, Theories of Truth and of Universals -- 16 Engels' Representative Realism and Lenin's Theory of Perception -- 17 The Causal Theory of Knowledge -- 18 Anthropological Realism -- 19 The Materialist Conception of Truth -- 20 The Truths of Logic and Mathematics -- 21 Absolute and Relative Truth and the Relativity of Knowledge -- 22 The Doctrine of Partiality of Truths -- 23 The Doctrine of Concreteness of Truths -- 24 The Relevance of the Problem of Universals and the Rejection of the Three Classic Doctrines -- 25 The Marxist-Leninist Theory of Universals -- 26 The Danger of Platonism -- Notes to Part V -- VI / Marxist-Leninist Historicism and the Concept of Ideology -- 27 The Methodological Approach -- 28 The Nature of Historical Laws -- 29 The Technological Conception of History -- 30 The Empirical Meaning of Historical Materialism -- 31 Prediction in the Social Sciences -- 32 The Revision of the Theoretical Framework of Historical&Materialism -- 33 Two Interpretations of the Role of Ideology -- 34 The Reappraisal of the Dual Theory of Ideology -- 35 The New Principles of the History of the Philosophy and their Revision -- Notes to Part VI -- Conclusions -- Abbreviations used in the Bibliography -- Index of Names.