God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man.

Originally trained in the neo-Kantian tradition with Ernst Cassirer and immersed in the work of the phenomenologists Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger Strauss later focused his research on the Greek texts of Plato and Aristotle retracing their interpretation through medieval Islamic and Jewish philosophy and encouraging applying their ideas to contemporary political theory. He spent most of his career as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago where he taught several generations of students and publiLeo Straussd fifteen books.