| Strauss’ s criticism of modernity starts from Jacobian epistemology,and in the criticism of epistemology,he extends his criticism of enlightenment,and finds out the conflict between revelation and reason.Combined with his Jewish background,Strauss deepens the debate between revelation and reason into a theo-political issue in the Jewish question,and thus launches a criticism of religion.Through the enlightenment criticism,the Jewish question and the religious criticism,Strauss found that all the problems seemed to point to the modernity established after the enlightenment,and thus launched the investigation of modernity.Through the investigation of the modernity scheme and the characteristic connotation of modernity,Strauss finally determines that the modernity problem originates from the modernity scheme.According to Strauss,the modernity problem reflected by the modernity crisis originates from the modernity itself or the modernity plan itself contains problems.Modernity scheme intended to build give a kind of rely on positivism science consists of all the ethnic equality,freedom and equality of all ethnic groups,and with the help of science and technology bring widespread prosperity and happiness to mankind’s universal society,to free man from the slavery of god,eliminate conflict and war between humans,achieve freedom and equality,harmonious coexistence of all mankind.However,in the process of practice,the modernity project has gone to its opposite.Modernity replaces God and controls man,who is immersed in the material desire of modernization and loses the pursuit of authenticity.This not only deviates from the original intention of the modernity scheme,but also makes people confused about the modernity problem,and why the scheme and the result deviate from each other.In the end,Strauss found the hidden teachings of philosophy.Strauss believed that the main cause of modern problems was that modern political philosophy rejected classical political philosophy,which resulted in the separation between fact and value.And this kind of situation and the modern political philosophy and the classical political reason has the inseparable reason.Strauss found the way out of the crisis of modernity through the secret teachings of philosophy and intended to solve the crisis of modernity through the reconstruction of classical natural rights.Only in this way can the crisis of modernity be alleviated by rediscovering man’s pursuit of classical political rationality.Only human beings restored the life style of classical politics,re-pursued the good life,and committed themselves to the realization of the only good society.And all of these will be realized through education,through education to cultivate the philosophers who become citizens,through education to sort out people’s yearning for classical political life,through education to teach and establish a life-oriented political philosophy. |
