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[[Image:Alte190.jpg|right|thumb|Leo Strauss]]
[[Image:Alte190.jpg|right|thumb|Leo Strauss]]
'''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]].
He has strongly influenced the shape of American [[Neoconservatism]].
He has strongly influenced the shape of American [[Neoconservatism]].