Philosophy as Knowledge of the Whole: A Conference on the Fifty Year Remembrance of Leo Strauss’s Death

Title: Philosophy as Knowledge of the Whole
Subtitle: A Conference on the Fifty Year Remembrance of Leo Strauss’s Death
Venue: Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Budapest, 1113 Tas vezér u. 3-7.
Time: October 12-13., 2023

12 October (Thursday)
9.00 AM Opening Remarks

Zoltan Szalai, Director General, MCC
Andras Lanczi, Director of the European Center for Political Philosophy, MCC

9.30 AM Keynote Speech

Michael Anton (Claremont) – “Strauss on the Ancients and the Moderns in Thoughts on Machiavelli”

10.30 AM Break
10.50 AM Strauss and the Ancients

Chair: Robert Papp
Laurence Lampert (Indiana, retired) – “Strauss’s Blunder: ‘the time, i.e., the year’ of the Republic”
Iraj Azarfaza (Tehran) – “Leo Strauss on Xenophon’s Grudge against Socrates”

12.00 PM Lunch break
2.00 PM Strauss and Contemporary Conservatism

chair: Andras Lanczi
Andreas Kinneging (Leiden) – “The Conservatism of Leo Strauss”
Zbigniew Janowski (Towson, retired) – “Is Leo Strauss Still Worth Reading?”

3.00 PM Break
3.15 PM Strauss and the Moderns

chair: Arthur Milikh
Jakub Jinek (Charles) – “The Political Hermeneutics of Leo Strauss”
William Wood (MCC) – “’Philosophy Is to Fulfil the Function of Both Philosophy and Religion’ – Leo Strauss, Machiavelli and the Nature of Modernity”
Timothy Burns (Baylor) – “Leo Strauss on the Origin and Character of Modern Democracy”

4.20 PM Break
4.40 PM Strauss and other Authors

chair: Jakub Jinek
Guillermo Graino Ferrer (Francisco de Vitoria Madrid) – “Authority, the People and Esotericism in the Erudite Libertines and Pascal”
Till Kinzel (Technische Uni Berlin) – "The Significance of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi for the Philosophy of Leo Strauss"

5.40 PM End of conference, closing remarks

Andras Lanczi

If you have any questions before or during the conference, contact Robert Papp (+36 30 429 5886, papp.robert@mcc.hu).

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