POR QUE É RELEVANTE ESTUDAR HOJE A FILOSOFÍA POLÍTICA DE LEO STRAUSS?

Through a reappraisal of Strauss’s political philosophy, this article tries to find a more comprehensive overview of political philosophy in the Middle Ages and its meaning for contemporary political philosophy. If, on the one hand, Strauss chose to follow what is known as medieval rationalism, on the other, the relation between reason and faith characterized the core of his reflection. Strauss was a Jewish author who never forgot his condition, something that defined, from his youth on, the political and theological problem as the major concern of his scientific and academic life. According to such perspective, I will mainly describe the reception of the philosophical and theological model proposed by Maimonides and its integration to the platonic model. Thus, our central thesis is established, namely, that Strauss’s project is mainly based on the model created by Moses Maimonides.