Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss e a filosofia política

Abstract

Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss take the problem of the relation between philosophy and politics as a crucial issue. In both thinkers’ understanding, to examine this problem is necessary to criticize the tradition of political philosophy. Notwithstanding, their projects take different ways when Arendt put in check this tradition as such, and Strauss wants to recover the meaning of classical political philosophy. One way to apprehend these differences is to examine their interpretation of Machiavelli’s thought. From thence, we can see how they formulate some important aspects of their own thoughts, as the central role they concede to the classical theme of virtue, specifically, the virtues of courage and moderation.