| − | '''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]]. | + | '''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]]. |