Leo Strauss

Overview

"Leo Strauss (September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973) was an American conservative political philosopher of German-Jewish extraction, who specialized in the relativization of classical philosophy during his decades at the University of Chicago." (Wikipedia)

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Strauss's views appear to many observers to be at the core of the Bush Neoconservative world-view (see links below).

Reference

• Wikipedia
• dKosopedia

Links

• Leo Strauss and the neoconservatives by Shadia B. Drury
• The Guru of Neoconservatism (The Intellectual/Platonist Version) by David Brin