列奥·施特劳斯为什么以及怎样批评卡尔·施米特

施特劳斯的核心问题是虚无主义,其毕生致力于批判自由主义和现代性就在于认定它们导致了虚无主义。而他之所以批判恰恰是激烈批评自由主义的施米特,也在于认定施米特思想的基础仍然是虚无主义的。我们只有在这个意义上来理解施特劳斯对施米特的批评,才能够理解施特劳斯所表达的施米特对自由主义的批判仍然发生于自由主义的视界之内,依然受制于无法克服的自由主义思想体系这一话语的义涵。施特劳斯对施米特的批评是正确的,但是对自由主义的指责却是不正确的,自由主义并非虚无主义的,分歧仅仅在于自由主义的道德基础与施特劳斯的道德基础不同而已。

Why and How Did Leo Strauss Criticize Carl Schmitt?

The key question of Leo Strauss's studies is nihilism, and that he dev oted himself to the criticism of liberalism and modernity is because for him the y are the causes of nihilism. The reason that he criticizes Carl Schmitt, an ent husiastic critic of liberalism, is his belief that the basis of Schmitt's thinki ng is also nihilism. Only in this sense could we understand Strauss's criticism of Schmitt, could we understand why Strauss said that Schmitt's criticism of lib eralism was still within the horizon of liberalism. Strauss is right in his crit icism of Schmitt, but not in his criticism of liberalism because liberalism is n ot equivalent to nihilism. The dispute between Strauss and liberalism lies in th eir different moral basis.