LEO STRAUSS'S PLATONISM Neil Robertson ngrobert@is.dal.ca For Platonists are not concerned with the historical (accidental) truth, since they are exclusively interested in the philosophic (essential) truth. Only because public speech demands a mixture of seriousness and playfulness, can a true Platonist present the serious teaching, the philosophic teaching, in a historical, and hence playful, ...

THE CLOSING OF THE EARLY MODERN MIND: LEO STRAUSS AND EARLY MODERN POLITICAL THOUGHT Neil G. Robertson ngrobert@is.dal.ca And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, The Element of fire is quite put out; The Sun is lost, and th'earth, and no mans wit Can well direct him where to looke for it. And freely men confesse that this world's spent, When in the Planets, and the Firmament They seeke so many ...

Author s Note This Biographical Essay is a fragment and outline of what I hope will be a much more complete, book-length biography of Leo Strauss sometime in the future. I welcome any constructive criticism or additional information. Regards, David McBryde d.mcbryde@uq.net.au Leo Strauss by David McBryde Leo Strauss was born on 20 September, 1899, in Kirchhain, Hesse, Germany. Strauss s parents ...