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[[Image:Alte190.jpg|right|thumb|Leo Strauss]]

[[Image:Alte190.jpg|right|thumb|Leo Strauss]]

'''Leo Strauss''' is a German-born philosopher.  He was raised as an [[Orthodox Jew]], but became an [[atheist]] later in life.  He fled to the United States when the [[Nazi]] party came into power, and became a Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.  He specialized in the study of classical political philosophy, such as the philosophy of [[Plato]], [[Aristotle]], [[Niccolò Machiavelli]], [[Thomas Hobbes]], [[Benedict de Spinoza]], [[Søren Kierkegaard]], [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], and [[Martin Heidegger]].

'''Leo Strauss''' was a German-born philosopher.  He was raised as an [[Orthodox Jew]], but became an [[atheist]] later in life.  He fled to the United States when the [[Nazi]] party came into power, and became a Professor of Political Science at the [[University of Chicago]].  He specialized in the study of classical political philosophy, such as the philosophy of [[Plato]], [[Aristotle]], [[Niccolò Machiavelli]], [[Thomas Hobbes]], [[Benedict de Spinoza]], [[Søren Kierkegaard]], [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], and [[Martin Heidegger]].

He has strongly influenced the shape of American [[Neoconservatism]].

He has strongly influenced the shape of American [[Neoconservatism]].

Some of Leo Strauss' students include Supreme Court Justice [[Clarence Thomas]], Supreme Court nominee [[Robert Bork]], former Deputy Secretary of Defense [[Paul Wolfowitz]], former Assistant Secretary of State [[Alan Keyes]], former Secretary of Education [[William Bennett]], Weekly Standard editor [[William Kristol]], political philosopher [[Allan Bloom]], former New York Post editorials editor [[John Podhoretz]], former National Endowment for the Humanities Deputy Chairman [[John T. Agresto]]; speech-writer for [[Barry Goldwater]], Harry V. Jaff; former [[FrontPage Magazine]] editor, Robert Locke; and [[Nobel Prize]] winning novelist [[Saul Bellow]].  

Some of Leo Strauss' students include Supreme Court Justice [[Clarence Thomas]], Supreme Court nominee [[Robert Bork]], former Deputy Secretary of Defense [[Paul Wolfowitz]], former Assistant Secretary of State [[Alan Keyes]], former Secretary of Education [[William Bennett]], ''Weekly Standard'' editor [[William Kristol]], political philosopher [[Allan Bloom]], former ''New York Post'' editorials editor [[John Podhoretz]], former National Endowment for the Humanities Deputy Chairman [[John T. Agresto]]; speech-writer for [[Barry Goldwater]], Harry V. Jaff; former [[FrontPage Magazine]] editor, Robert Locke; and [[Nobel Prize]] winning novelist [[Saul Bellow]].  

Followers of Leo Strauss usually call themselves Straussians and have played a major role in introducing conservative ideas imnto political science.

Followers of Leo Strauss usually call themselves Straussians and have played a major role in introducing conservative ideas into political science.

Leo Strauss was a vigorous anti-globalist, writing in his book ''Natural Right and History'', that "no human being and no group of human beings can rule the whole of the human race justly."

Leo Strauss was a vigorous anti-globalist, writing in his book ''Natural Right and History'', that "no human being and no group of human beings can rule the whole of the human race justly."

Some of Leo Strauss' main ideas were later popularized in Allan Bloom's influential book ''[[The Closing Of The American Mind]]''.  

Some of Leo Strauss' main ideas were later popularized in Allan Bloom's influential book ''[[The Closing Of The American Mind]]''.  

Strauss contended that Heidegger, building on the thoughts of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, was "the thinker of our age". "The great achievement of Heidegger was the coherent exposition of the experience of ''Existenz''... Kierkegaard had spoken of existence but within the traditional horizon... Heidegger tried to understand existence out of itself."<ref>Strauss, Leo. Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism.</ref>

Strauss contended that [[Martin Heidegger]], building on the thoughts of Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, was "the thinker of our age". "The great achievement of Heidegger was the coherent exposition of the experience of ''Existenz''... Kierkegaard had spoken of existence but within the traditional horizon... Heidegger tried to understand existence out of itself."<ref>Strauss, Leo. Rebirth of Classical Political Rationalism.</ref>

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