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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''' 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]].

 

 

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 it is said that they network in academia and in Washington and find one another jobs.

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

[[Category:Political Scientists]]

[[Category:Political Scientists]]

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[[Category:Neoconservative]]

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