LEO STRAUSS AND THE CHARACTER OF CLASSICAL POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

This paper aims to present Leo Strauss’s interpretation of the meaning classical political philosophy. To this end, will try show how, for Strauss, philosophy, emerging from original conflict that opposes philosophic reason authorized opinions city, was organized as a fundamentally esoteric teaching sought make practical and moral demands life, expressed exemplarily in ideal best regime, compatible with defense contemplative life most perfect happy man.