列奥·施特劳斯的政治哲学诠释学

Leo Strauss’s Hermeneutics of Political Philosophy

列奥·施特劳斯从哲学与政治的固有冲突出发,提出了一套应该如何阅读经典著作的理论。他的诠释学包括两条原则。第一条原则是像作者理解自己一样理解作者。施特劳斯认为,诠释意味着回归作者本身,只有站在作者的立场上理解作者,才有可能理解作者。第二条原则是注意作者的写作艺术。由于重新发现哲学史上的双重教诲传统,施特劳斯提出,要注意作者的显白教诲和隐微教诲之分,而且只有在充分理解作者的显白教诲的基础上,才有可能理解作者的隐微教诲。施特劳斯的诠释学充满对哲学与政治之内在冲突的考量,对哲人实践智慧的尊重,可被称作是政治哲学诠释学。

Starting from the inherent conflicts between philosophy and politics,Leo Strauss develops a theory on how we should comprehend classical works.Strauss’s hermeneutics includes two principles.The first one is to understand the author as he understands himself.According to Strauss,interpretation means introspection and embodying the author to understand their intrinsic position.The second principle is to focus on the author’s art of writing.Rediscovering the tradition of dual teaching(esotericism and exotericism)in the history of philosophy,Strauss claims that the author’s esoteric teachings should be distinguished from his exoteric ones,and that his esoteric ones can only be comprehended with a complete understanding of his exoteric teachings.As Strauss’s hermeneutics is full of considerations of the inherent conflicts between philosophy and politics,as well as the respect for past philosophers’acumen of practices,it can be termed as the hermeneutics of political philosophy.