Jew Corrupter: Zionist NeoCon Godfather Leo Strauss

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Looks like the whole Jew Scam "Liberal versus Conservative" debate in the USA is largely the creation of this sick NeoCon Jew....  the Iraq Murderous Jew Scam was initiated by his followers... typical Jew Scammer...  :x

Early life

Leo Strauss was born in the small town of Kirchhain in Hesse-Nassau, a province of the Kingdom of Prussia (part of the German Empire), on September 20, 1899, to Hugo Strauss and Jennie Strauss, née David. According to Allan Bloom's 1974 obituary in Political Theory, Strauss "was raised as an Orthodox Jew," but the family does not appear to have completely embraced Orthodox practice.[1]

In "A Giving of Accounts", published in The College 22 (1) and later reprinted in Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity, Strauss noted he came from a "conservative, even orthodox Jewish home," but one which knew little about Judaism except strict adherence to ceremonial laws. His father and uncle operated a farm supply and livestock business that they inherited from their father, Meyer (1835–1919), a leading member of the local Jewish community.

Education

After attending the Kirchhain Volksschule and the Protestant Rektoratsschule, Leo Strauss was enrolled at the Gymnasium Philippinum (affiliated with the University of Marburg) in nearby Marburg (from which Johannes Althusius and Carl J. Friedrich also graduated) in 1912, graduating in 1917. He boarded with the Marburg Cantor Strauss (no relation); the Cantor's residence served as a meeting place for followers of the neo-Kantian philosopher Hermann Cohen. Strauss served in the German army during World War I from July 5, 1917 to December 1918.

Strauss subsequently enrolled in the University of Hamburg, where he received his doctorate in 1921; his thesis, "On the Problem of Knowledge in the Philosophical Doctrine of F. H. Jacobi", was supervised by Ernst Cassirer. He also attended courses at the Universities of Freiburg and Marburg, including some taught by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. Strauss joined a Jewish fraternity and worked for the German Zionist movement, which introduced him to various German Jewish intellectuals, such as Norbert Elias, Leo Löwenthal, Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin. Strauss' closest friend was Jacob Klein but he also was intellectually engaged with Karl Löwith, Gerhard Krüger, Julius Guttman, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Franz Rosenzweig (to whom Strauss dedicated his first book), Gershom Scholem, Alexander Altmann, and the Arabist Paul Kraus, who married Strauss' sister Bettina (Strauss and his wife later adopted their child when both parents died in the Middle East). With several of these friends, Strauss carried on vigorous epistolary exchanges later in life, many of which are published in the Gesammelte Schriften (Collected Writings), some in translation from the German. Strauss had also been engaged in a discourse with Carl Schmitt, who was instrumental in Strauss' receiving a Rockefeller Fellowship. However, when Strauss left Germany, he broke off this discourse when Schmitt failed to answer his letters.

In 1931 Strauss sought his post-doctoral (Habilitation) with the theologian Paul Tillich, but was turned down. After receiving a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1932, Strauss left his position at the Academy of Jewish Research in Berlin for Paris. He returned to Germany only once, for a few short days 20 years later. In Paris he married Marie (Miriam) Bernsohn, a widow with a young child whom he had known previously in Germany. He adopted his wife's son, Thomas, and later his sister's child; he and Miriam had no biological children of their own. At his death he was survived by Thomas, his sister's daughter Jenny Strauss Clay, and three grandchildren. Strauss became a lifelong friend of Alexandre Kojève and was on friendly terms with Raymond Aron, Alexandre Koyré, and Etienne Gilson. Because of the Nazis' rise to power, he chose not to return to his native country. Strauss found shelter, after some vicissitudes, in England, where in 1935 he gained temporary employment at University of Cambridge, with the help of his in-law, David Daube, who was affiliated with Gonville and Caius College. While in England, he became a close friend of R. H. Tawney.

Later years

The University of Chicago, the school with which Strauss is most closely associated.

Unable to find permanent employment in England, Strauss moved in 1937 to the United States, under the patronage of Harold Laski, who bestowed upon Strauss a brief lectureship. After a short stint as Research Fellow in the Department of History at Columbia University, Strauss secured a position at The New School, where, between 1938 and 1948, he eked out a hand-to-mouth living in the political science faculty. In 1939, he served for a short term as a visiting professor at Hamilton College. He became a U.S. citizen in 1944, and in 1949 he became a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he received, for the first time in his life, a good wage. In 1954 he met Löwith and Gadamer in Heidelberg and delivered a public speech on Socrates. Strauss held the Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professorship in Chicago until 1969. He had received a call for a temporary lectureship in Hamburg in 1965 (which he declined for health reasons) and received and accepted an honorary doctorate from Hamburg University and the Bundesverdienstkreuz (German Order of Merit) via the German representative in Chicago. In 1969 Strauss moved to Claremont McKenna College (formerly Claremont Men's College) in California for a year, and then to St. John's College, Annapolis in 1970, where he was the Scott Buchanan Distinguished Scholar in Residence until his death from pneumonia in 1973.

Strauss and Zionism

Strauss is known to have been a political Zionist, at least when young. He maintained a sympathy and interest in the movement, although he came to refer to it as "problematic".

When he was 17, as he said, he was "converted" to political Zionism as a follower of Vladimir Jabotinsky. He served several years in the activities of the German Zionist youth movement, writing several essays pertaining to its controversies.[16]

He taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, for 1954–55 academic year. In his letter to a National Review editor, Strauss asked why is Israel called a racist state in an article in that journal. He argues that the author did not provide enough proof for his argument. He ends up his essay with the following statement[17]:

Political Zionism is problematic for obvious reasons. But I can never forget what it achieved as a moral force in an era of complete dissolution. It helped to stem the tide of "progressive" leveling of venerable, ancestral differences; it fulfilled a conservative function.

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Leo Strauss on Alexis de Tocqueville

An extract from one of Strauss' class transcripts providing an interpretation of Tocqueville's place in Strauss' History of Political Philosophy. Nowhere in his published writings has Strauss spoken of Tocqueville at such length or so explicitly.This valuable statement, while not exhaustive, is subtle and complete. Included here is Strauss' short preface to "Liberalism. Ancient & Modern" which concerns the contemporary meaning of conservativism and progressivism, their common ground, and the confusion caused by the history of these terms.


http://www.archive.org/details/LeoStrau ... ocqueville
http://ia341026.us.archive.org/3/items/ ... atives.pdf


Leo Strauss On Machiavelli

http://www.archive.org/details/StraussOnMachiavelli

Leo Strauss - Contemporary Jurisprudence: a roundtable discussion

This is an interview and discussion with a few of the most famous legal scholars, a philosopher, and a judge, concerning the problems faced by education and the law today due to the absence of any natural principles. The problem of nihilism is addressed directly. Other participants included Russel Kirk & Justice Donoso. The source was unfortunately not registered in the copy. Strauss makes some rare and candid remarks here about academia and the problem of demagoguery within liberal democracy in an age of mass media.

http://www.archive.org/download/LeoStra ... udence.pdf


Leo Strauss on Nietzsche's "Beyond Good & Evil"

One of Strauss' last essays, offering a very rich and condensed interpretation of Nietzsche's thought as a whole by way of a "Note on the Plan of Beyond Good & Evil". The ambiguous place of Nature in Nietzsche's thought and the importance of the 'Eternal Return of the Same' is discussed. Strauss simply lays bare the fundamental experience at the heart of modern thought - and hence existentialism & nihilism.

Notable students

    * Allan Bloom, best known for his critique of higher education The Closing of the American Mind, was a student of Strauss at the University of Chicago.

    * Seth Benardete, the late classicist whose works include Herodotean Inquiries, Socrates' Second Sailing: On Plato's Republic, The Bow and the Lyre: A Platonic Reading of the Odyssey as well as translations of the following Platonic dialogues: Symposium, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman and Philebus.

    * Harry V. Jaffa, served as a speechwriter for 1964 Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater and is a proponent of Declarationism constitutional theory.[34]

    * Paul Wolfowitz, who was deputy secretary of defense during the US-led invasion of Iraq and, until his resignation in May 2007, as a result of controversy, president of the World Bank, attended two courses that Strauss taught on Plato and Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws at the University of Chicago. Wolfowitz has claimed to be more of a student of Albert Wohlstetter than of Strauss.

    * Hadley Arkes, Ney Professor in American Institutions at Amherst College, is a prominent natural law thinker, author of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act, and a former Strauss student.

    * Abram Shulsky, another of Strauss' students, headed The Pentagon's Office of Special Plans, which worked under Wolfowitz to gather intelligence for the Iraq War.[11]

    * Harvey C. Mansfield, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard University, though never a student of Strauss, is a noted "Straussian" (as some followers of Strauss identify themselves).

    * Roger Masters, the Nelson A. Rockefeller Professor of Government, Emeritus at Dartmouth College, was a close student of Strauss in Chicago but is not generally considered "Straussian".[35]

    * Murray Dry, Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College, a student of Strauss and contributor to Storing's The Complete Anti-Federalist. Dry earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D under Strauss and Storing at the University of Chicago.

    * Thomas Pangle, Political Philosopher at the University of Texas at Austin and former professor at Yale and the University of Toronto.

    * William Galston, Saul I Stern Professor of Civic Engagement and director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the School of Public Policy of University of Maryland, College Park. Galston was also a senior adviser to President Bill Clinton on domestic policy issues.

[VoltaXebec]

Not surprising some bastards will talk all day about Leo Strauss and never mention he's a jew.

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

Not surprising some bastards will talk all day about Leo Strauss and never mention he's a jew.

That's right VoltaXebec. Kind of reminds me of Kissinger's treachery, transgressions and lies.

[VoltaXebec]

Haha, Kissinger, total proof that it's the jews, if it was any other group pulling the strings he would be long gone