ABSTRACT This paper focuses on Leo Strauss’s reading of the Republic. I argue that Strauss’s ironic interpretation of the dialogue must be understood in the context of a broader intellectual project which aims to criticize modern and contemporary political philosophy. Strauss’s understanding of Plato is strongly influenced by the hermeneutical principles he draws from his studies of medieval Jewish and Arab philosophy. Reading Plato through Alfarabi, Strauss pursues the idea of the conflict between philosophy and politics, which sheds light, also, on the problem of persecution. Accordingly, he stresses the importance of a peculiar art of reading between the lines. In Strauss’s view, this art is the starting point for recovering the esoteric meaning of the Republic. I will argue that Strauss’s interpretation contradicts several dialogical elements because it does not take into account the broader historical framework of the text. Nevertheless, even with these limitations, Plato scholars should consider Straussian insights, because these offer an untraditional and a non-doctrinal reading of the dialogue.

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城市的界限：列奥·施特劳斯的诠释学和柏拉图的共和国

摘要 本文重点介绍列奥·施特劳斯对共和国的解读。我认为施特劳斯对对话的讽刺性解释必须在旨在批评现代和当代政治哲学的更广泛的智力项目的背景下理解。施特劳斯对柏拉图的理解深受他从中世纪犹太和阿拉伯哲学研究中得出的诠释学原则的影响。通过阿尔法拉比阅读柏拉图，施特劳斯追求哲学与政治之间的冲突思想，这也揭示了迫害问题。因此，他强调了一种独特的字里行间阅读艺术的重要性。在施特劳斯看来，这种艺术是恢复共和国深奥意义的起点。我认为施特劳斯的解释与几个对话元素相矛盾，因为它没有考虑到文本的更广泛的历史框架。尽管如此，即使有这些限制，柏拉图学者也应该考虑施特劳斯的见解，因为这些见解提供了对对话的非传统和非教义解读。