Svetozar Y. Minkov is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Roosevelt University and the author of Francis Bacon's "Inquiry Touching Human Nature": Virtue, Philosophy, and the Relief of Man's Estate.

• PrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction: The Relation between Political Philosophy and Natural SciencePart I. Political and Psychological Preconditions for Recovering Socratic Science 1. The Rediscovery of Socratic Dialectic: Strauss on Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political 2. The "Fundamental Political Predicament": Strauss on Plato’s Laws, Book IIIPart II. The Origin and Nature of Philosophy 3. The Natural Frame of Reference and the Possibility of a Comprehensive Science4. Natural Right and History (ch. 3) on the Origin and Nature of PhilosophyPart III. Divine Revelation and the Possibility of Science 5. Strauss’s Introduction to "Platonic Studies" in Modern Times6. Revelation and the Problem of KnowledgePart IV. The Foundations and Directions of Modern Philosophy and Science 7. Science and Politics in Strauss’s Course on Natural Right (1962)8. "An Irony Beyond Machiavelli’s Irony": A Reading of the Concluding Six Paragraphs of Thoughts on Machiavelli Concluding RemarksAcknowledgmentsAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex