The legendary experience of Leo

Leo strauss was born in a rural town in Germany on September 20th, 1989. He was a so-called "German Jew" with hannah arendt, Benjamin, Gerschom Ike Shoronmu and lovett. For their generation of Jews, youth first witnessed the outbreak of World War I and the impact of Bingler's Decline of the West, followed by the strong shock of Heidegger's philosophical revolution, but it was followed by the outbreak of World War II, the genocide of Jews by Nazi Germany, and their personal exile as Jews. 1938 Strauss was forced into exile in the United States at the age of forty.

1949, he was appointed as a professor of political philosophy at the university of Chicago and was invited to give a speech at the walgreen lecture that year. The result of the speech was his later published masterpiece Natural Justice and History (1953). His speech at the University of Chicago deeply influenced the young students of the University of Chicago.

In the 14 year after arriving in Chicago, Strauss and his first disciples published the History of Collective Achievements of Political Philosophy (1963), which successfully eliminated Sabin's History of Political Theory, which was popular before, and also marked the initial formation of the so-called Strauss school of political philosophy. The following year (1964), on Strauss's sixty-fifth birthday, his disciples specially published his birthday anthology, entitled "Ancient People and Modern People: Traditional Anthology of Political Philosophy", which typically reflected the basic concern of the Strauss School: reopening the "dispute between the ancient and the modern" and trying to examine the issue of "western modernity" from the perspective of "classical West", including strongly criticizing contemporary mainstream American academics. The basic orientation of the whole school can be summarized by two famous sayings of Strauss:

"The case-solving of the dispute between modern people and the ancients must be reopened; In other words, we must learn to consider this possibility seriously and without prejudice: Swift is right to compare the modern world to a lilliputian country and the classical world to a giant country. "

"Thoroughly questioning the thoughts and theories of the West in the past three or four hundred years is the starting point for all wisdom pursuits."