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Leo Strauss
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| Born | September 20, 1899 |
| Died | October 18, 1973 (aged 74) |
| Alma mater | University of Hamburg |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
Leo Strauss (September 20, 1899 - October 18, 1973) was a German-American political philosopher and classicist who became an expert on political philosophy. He was born in Germany to Jewish parents and later went to the United States. He spent most of his time as a teacher of political science at the University of Chicago, where he taught students and put into print 15 books.
He was particularly concerned with the idea of whether freedom and excellence could go together, but his ideas were criticised by Nicholas Xenos as wanting to go back to an era of fascism.
He was against the idea of a world state as he thought it would lead to tyranny.
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The University of Chicago, the school with which Strauss is most closely associated
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Strauss's study of philosophy and political discourses produced by the Islamic civilization, above all those of Al-Farabi and Maimonides, was instrumental in the development of his theory of reading
