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Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Reflections on the Tradition of Republicanism -- 2. Initial Reflections on Political Philosophy -- 3. Who Was Cicero? -- 4. Cicero on the Nature of Philosophy -- 5. Cicero on Cosmology and Natural Philosophy -- 6. Cicero on Natural Theology -- 7. Cicero on Ethics -- 8. Cicero on Oratory and the Language Arts -- 9. Cicero on Politics -- 10. A Brief Reflection on Nietzsche -- Conclusion: Political Philosophy and the Republican Future -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Political philosophy must be pursued phenomenologically. When pursued phenomenologically, political philosophy is in fact proto or first philosophy itself rather than a subsection of philosophy. As first philosophy, political philosophy must be seen as architectonic, the queen of the sciences. Adapted from the source document.

An evolving interpretative context has pitted interpretations of Strauss as a furtive Nietzschean nihilist on the one hand against an understanding that he was primarily a Jewish thinker on the other. I will argue that he was neither. Strauss was attempting to recover what he categorized as the original idea of philosophy as theoretical & contemplative. But given the novel late modern situation of philosophy, that required that theory be reconceptualized. Further, following his own understanding of Nietzsche, he wished to separate future philosophy from the city, sending it off to a newfound detachment in a postmodern epicurean garden. Far from aiming at unleashing a new band of philosopher kings, Strauss aimed at epicureanizing philosophy by separating future philosophy from the constructivist interventionist stance it adopted during the modern epoch. That separation required, however, that the political be given a newfound autonomy, beyond the possibility of the End of History. 72 References. Adapted from the source document.