Abstract

The theme of the discussion between Helmut Kuhn and Leo Strauss on Strauss’ book Natural Right and History is the philosophical crisis of the theory of natural right in XXth century. Kuhn and Strauss reconstruct two different genealogies of modernity through the critical comparison between the classics and the modern philosophers of natural right. Their central end is the criticism of the ‘sceptical’ philosophies of contemporary age that lay the foundation of the nihilistic and relativistic shift of political philosophy.