If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

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.