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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Our next workshop in the series will be on
<b>Wednesday,</b> <b>October 12, 10-1130am (AEST)</b></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Miguel Vatter (Deakin University)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="p1"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">“Leo Strauss and Kelsen on Aristotle and the Question of Natural Right”</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Abstract:</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Strauss’s thought is notoriously complicated to decipher. One of the best guiding threads to his thinking is provided by the way in which he understands the role of Aristotle’s Politics and Nicomachean Ethics within
“Platonic political philosophy.” The latter is a technical term of art coined by Strauss which covers what he also calls “classical natural right” and in other places refers to as the problem of the difference between “legality and legitimacy”. It is now widely
assumed that Strauss, around the time of his emigration to the United States, came to believe that the works of Xenophon grant the best approximation to what is at stake in the problem of Platonic political philosophy. Despite the importance of Xenophon for
Strauss, in this talk I try to show that Aristotle’s political thought plays a crucial supporting role throughout the development of Strauss’s discourse on Platonic political philosophy; and, perhaps, Strauss’s reading of Aristotle is ultimately more telling
about the meaning of this discourse than his readings of Xenophon. The central issue here is Strauss’s discussion of the relation between justice and law in Aristotle’s political and ethical thought. This is an extremely complicated and controversial topic,
and Strauss’s treatment remains elusive, in part because he never explicitly acknowledges the tradition of scholarship on this very issue, and in part because his pronouncements on this topic do not directly refer to any Aristotelian texts. In my talk I shall
try to fill in some of the gaps on both accounts, and in particular by contextualizing Strauss’s reading of Aristotle on justice in reference to Kelsen’s own interpretations of Aristotelian natural right.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Biography: Miguel Vatter is Professor of Political Science at Deakin University. He is an international authority and author of an extraordinary range of books and articles on Machiavelli, Spinoza, Foucault, Arendt,
Schmitt, Agamben, biopolitics, democracy and political theology. His most recent book is
<i>Living law: Jewish political theology from Hermann Cohen to Hannah Arendt</i> (2021) published by OUP.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Zoom Details:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><a href="https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/84945943878?pwd=Z1F0OUZUT2k5SVN4YS8zYlVjK0NHZz09">https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/84945943878?pwd=Z1F0OUZUT2k5SVN4YS8zYlVjK0NHZz09</a></span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Corresponding times elsewhere:</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">London: Wednesday, 12 October 2022 at 1:00 am</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Paris: Wednesday, 12 October 2022 at 2:00 am</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Los Angeles: Tuesday, 11 October 2022 at 5:00 pm</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Perth: Wednesday, 12 October 2022 at 8:00 am</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Helvetica;color:black">UTC (GMT): Wednesday, 12 October 2022 at Midnight (0:00)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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