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In his sophomore year at the University of Texas in Austin, Strauss campaigned for a state assembly candidate and was rewarded with a part-time job as a Committee Clerk in the state legislature. While still an undergraduate, he volunteered for Lyndon Johnson's first congressional campaign.
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Feb 27, 2009 · In this paper I consider Strauss's case for philosophy as a “way of life.” Strauss's case rests, I believe, on a view of philosophy first as a quest—an erotic aspiration—for knowledge of the whole and second as committed to a skeptical view of our ability ever to attain to such knowledge.
Jul 18, 2014 · Sharing the ancient understanding of the tension between politics and philosophy, Strauss consistently maintained that philosophers do not want to rule, but they do employ certain forms of rhetoric to encourage their readers, especially their young readers, to seek the truth for themselves.
Robert S. Strauss, a Texas native, founded the law firm in which he still practices in 1945. He was Democratic National Committee Chairman from 1973 to 1976, Jimmy Carter’s campaign manager in 1976 and 1980, special trade representative for President Carter in 1977, and his personal representative in the Middle East negotiations.
J\t the time Strauss published Natural Right and History (1953) the state of the question of natural right was a mixture of oblivion and. fitful restoration. Natural right had disappeared from the center of discussion in political philosophy for well over a century.
The “Straussian” approach to the history of political philosophy is articulated primarily in the writings of Leo Strauss. Strauss wrote extremely careful, detailed studies of canonical philosophical works along with essays explaining his approach.
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The crude characterization of Strauss as a “consequentialist” does not much help matters either. A more subtle discussion of Strauss's “exotericism” and his relation to Nietzsche can be found in Stanley Rosen, Hermeneutics as Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987), 107-23.
