Abstract The denial of Locke's debt to Hobbes has long been characteristic many scholars Locke influenced by the Cambridge School. Peter Laslett was first argue for this view, and he did so in conscious opposition Leo Strauss his interpretation Locke. recent discovery Felix Waldmann a memoir that confirms deep interest as well prudent concealment undermined Laslett's case against Strauss. Waldm...

Contrary to other scholarship on Strauss, this paper argues that Strauss understands himself as having decisively rejected Nietzschean thought. First, I hold notwithstanding the agreement between and Nietzsche critique of modern culture, defects liberal democracy, flaws in some kinds historicism, sees unable extricate from trap standards. Nietzsche's philosophy needs natural standards, but he d...