THE STUDY ON HISTORY OF THOUGHTS BY THE WAY OF LEO STRAUSS'S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND THE POSSIBILITY OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

我们三年的研究成果将总结如下：1.我们继续对施特劳斯的著作和论文进行日文翻译和仔细阅读，这些书籍和论文在日本既没有翻译也没有仔细阅读，例如：暴政、自由主义古今、迫害和写作艺术、现代性的三次浪潮等。2.我们与美国、德国、加拿大和澳大利亚等国的许多哲学家或政治学学者合作推进了我们的研究。有了它，我们就可以在日本的大学里举办有关施特劳斯政治哲学的国际会议。我们邀请了六位国外的大学教授(顺便说一句，我们邀请的教授是内森·塔尔科夫(芝加哥大学教授)、海因里希·梅尔(德国卡尔·弗里德里希·冯·西门子商学院教授)、史蒂文·史密斯(耶鲁大学教授)、迈克尔·扎克特(圣母大学教授)、凯瑟琳·扎克特(圣母大学教授)、…莫尔和黑格·帕塔潘(澳大利亚格里菲斯大学高级讲师)，他就施特劳斯的政治哲学和施特劳斯思想发表了12次演讲。3.我们继续从施特劳斯视角研究现代性的政治和哲学问题，试图弄清楚我们这个时代的伦理和政治问题。4.我们还从施特劳斯视角重新解读思想史和古典政治哲学，即从写作艺术的角度和对文本的仔细阅读。5.此外，我们还开展了对哲学与暴政关系问题的研究，6.最后但同样重要的是，我们出版了一本名为《政治哲学》的期刊，不用说，它不仅专门讨论了施特劳斯的哲学，而且还讨论了一般的政治哲学。在已经出版或即将出版的三卷本期刊上，我们可以发表施特劳斯的三篇论文和他的学生已经为我们撰写的六篇论文的日文版(其中包括斯坦利·罗森和阿里耶·莫茨金的论文)，还可以发表一些推动或合作于我们项目的日本学者撰写的论文。较少

The results of our research program for three years will be summarized as follows.1.We went on with Japanese translation and careful-reading of Strauss's books and papers which had neither translated nor read carefully in Japan, for example, On Tyranny, Liberalism Ancient and Modern, Persecution and the Art of Writing,‘Three Waves of Modernity', and so on.2.We advanced our studies in collaboration with many philosophers or scholars of political science in foreign countries, for example, US, Germany, Canada and Australia. And therewith we could hold international conferences on Strauss's political philosophy in the universities in Japan. We invited six university professors from abroad (incidentally the professors we invited were Nathan Tarcov (Prof.at University of Chicago), Heinrich Meier (Prof.at Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung in Germany), Steven Smith (Prof.at Yale University), Michael Zuckert (Prof.at Notre Dame University), Catherine Zuckert (Prof.at Notre Dame University), a … More nd Haig Patapan (senior lecturer at Griffith University in Australia), who delivered 12 lectures about Strauss's political philosophy and Straussian thought.3.And we went on with our studies on political and philosophical problems of the modernity from the Straussian perspective and tried to make clear the ethical and political problems in our age.4.We also reinterpreted the history of thoughts and the classical political philosophies from the Straussian perspective, i.e.from the standpoint of‘the art of writing'and the‘careful-reading'of the texts.5.Besides, we developed investigations on problems of the relation between philosophy and tyranny, of the constitutions of modern states and of the social and political regime in postmodern age.6.Last but not least, we issued a journal entitled"Political Philosophy", which treats, needless to say, not only specifically Strauss's philosophy, but also political philosophy in general. On that journal of which 3 volumes were already issued or are about to issue, we could publish the Japanese version of three Strauss's papers and of six papers already addressed for us by his students (in which Stanley Rosen's and Aryeh Motzkin's paper are contained), and also publish some papers written by Japanese scholars propelling or collaborating to our program. Less