Rabbi Leo Baeck, E.L. Ehrlich of Basel, Herbert Strauss of Bern, and Rabbi Eugen Messinger of Bern outside of the West End Synagogue, London, at the International Meeting of the World Union for Progressive Judaism.

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A Recuperação da Filosofia Política Clássica no Pensamentode Leo Strauss

Tese apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Doutor em Filosofia, especialidade em Filosofia Moral e Política

Dialogue sur l'avenir de la démocratie libérale : John Rawls, Richard Rorty et Leo Strauss

Réalisé en cotutelle avec l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV).

El lloc de l'educaci?? en la filosofia pol??tica com a filosofia primera : art d'escriure i educaci?? liberal en el Plat?? de Leo Strauss

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The lion and the ox: Oakeshotts engagement with Leo Strauss on Hobbes

Recent studies of Michael Oakeshott have stressed the mutually constitutive importance of Hobbes to Oakeshott, arguing in part that Oakeshott’s Hobbes largely reflected his own concerns and broader philosophical project. This paper does not dispute this, but proposes a complementary account: Oakeshott’s interpretation of Hobbes was also formed in large measure by both his sympathy for Leo Strauss’s account and by his perception of it as the principal rival to his own. To demonstrate the existence of such a formative engagement, a close reading of Oakeshott’s essay The moral life in the writings of Thomas Hobbes is undertaken. Not only is Oakeshott found to have absorbed much of Strauss’s interpretation (surprisingly including Strauss’s distinction between esoteric and exoteric doctrines), the key impetus of the essay is shown to be a refutation of Strauss’s characterization of Hobbes as a ‘moralist of the common good’.

Portrait of Bertha Oppenheimer nee Strauss Portraits; Women

Wife of Emil Oppenheimer and mother of Louis Oppenheimer

Historian Herbert Strauss standing in front of an exhibition at the ZFA (Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung; Center for Research on Antisemitism); Berlin Portraits Men

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Studio portrait of brothers Herbert and Walther Strauss; Würzburg.

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Stamped portrait of Magdalena Strauss.

Mother of Herbert Strauss

Studio portrait of Magdalena Strauss.

Mother of Herbert Strauss

Strauss family portrait; Würzburg.

Seated front center is grandmother Ernestine Strauss nee Uhlfelder (died before 1914, second wife of Leopold (Laemmle) Strauss) surrounded by six grandchildren; Benno Strauss is standing far left

Studio portrait of Benno Strauss; Würzburg.

Father of Herbert Strauss

Herbert Strauss standing along the water.

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Young boy (Herbert Strauss?) pushing a bicycle down a busy street.

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