Others, such as Leo Strauss and Harvey Mansfield, have argued strongly that there is a very strong and deliberate consistency and distinctness, even arguing that this extends to all of Machiavelli's works including his comedies and letters.

Leo Strauss argued that the strong influence of Xenophon, a student of Socrates more known as an historian, rhetorician and soldier, was a major source of Socratic ideas for Machiavelli, sometimes not in line with Aristotle.

Strauss argued that Machiavelli may have seen himself as influenced by some ideas from classical materialists such as Democritus, Epicurus and Lucretius.

Strauss argued that Machiavelli may indeed have been influenced by pre-Socratic philosophers, but he felt it was a new combination :-

Strauss argued that the unavoidable nature of such arms races, which have existed before modern times and led to the collapse of peaceful civilizations, provides us with both an explanation of what is most truly dangerous in Machiavelli's innovations, but also the way in which the aims of his apparently immoral innovation can be understood.

Leo Strauss ( in The City and Man ) locates the problem in the nature of Athenian democracy itself, about which, he argued, Thucydides had a deeply ambivalent view: on one hand, Thucydides ' own " wisdom was made possible " by the Periclean democracy, which had the effect of liberating individual daring, enterprise and questioning spirit, but this same liberation, by permitting the growth of limitless political ambition, led to imperialism and, eventually, civic strife.

Leo Strauss has argued that this work is in fact by Xenophon, whose ironic posing he believes has been utterly missed by contemporary scholarship.

Machiavelli argued, for example, that violent divisions within political communities are unavoidable, but can also be a source of strength which law-makers and leaders should account for and even encourage in some ways ( Strauss 1987 ).

Strauss argued that the city-in-speech was unnatural, precisely because " it is rendered possible by the abstraction from eros ".

In particular, Strauss argued that Plato's myth of the Philosopher king should be read as a reductio ad absurdum, and that philosophers should understand politics, not in order to influence policy but to ensure philosophy's autonomy from politics.

Additionally, Mark Lilla has argued that the attribution to Strauss of neoconservative views contradicts a careful reading of Strauss ' actual texts, in particular On Tyranny.

In an internal memo to Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, Strauss argued, " If such a test is not made, there will be loose talk to the effect that the fleet is obsolete in the face of this new weapon and this will militate against appropriations to preserve a postwar Navy of the size now planned.

Donald Devine has argued Meyer's synthesis is a first principle or axiom that is as valid as Strauss ’ monist first principle and relates this to Hayek ’ s critical rationalism philosophical tradition and those he identifies with it such as Aristotle, Cicero, Thomas Aquinas, Montesquieu, John Locke, Adam Smith and Lord Acton.

David Strauss has argued that judicial activism can be narrowly defined as one or more of three possible actions: overturning laws as unconstitutional, overturning judicial precedent, and ruling against a preferred interpretation of the constitution.

In Natural Right and History Strauss begins with a critique of Max Weber's epistemology, briefly engages the relativism of Martin Heidegger ( who goes unnamed ), and continues with a discussion of the evolution of natural rights via an analysis of the thought of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke.

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Leo Strauss in his Natural Right and History contentiously argues that Locke is more or less Hobbesian in his conception of politics.

Quixote has served as an important thematic source not only in literature but in much of art and music, inspiring works by Pablo Picasso and Richard Strauss.

The polka was also a further source of inspiration for the Strauss family in Vienna when Johann II and Josef Strauss wrote one for plucked string instruments ( pizzicato ) only, the well-known ' Pizzicato polka '.

According to Operabase, he has more operas played worldwide than any other composer born in the twentieth century, and only Puccini and Richard Strauss come ahead of him if the list is extended to all operas composed after 1900.

Meanwhile, far from being an admirer of Strauss's work, Joseph Goebbels maintained expedient cordiality with Strauss only for a period.

It seems that rather than trying to avoid a Strauss rivalry, the elder Strauss only wanted his son to escape the rigours of a musician's life.

* European Archive Copyright free LP recording of several ( abridged ) works by Johann Strauss II, at the European Archive ( for non-American viewers only ).

Therefore, other than Strauss and numerous concert overtures by others, there are only isolated symphonic poems by German and Austrian composers — Hans von Bülow's Nirwana ( 1866 ), Hugo Wolf's Penthesilea ( 1883-5 ) and Arnold Schoenberg's Pelleas und Melisande ( 1902-3 ).

Delius was much better received in Germany, where a series of successful performances of his works led to what Beecham describes as a Delius vogue there, " second only to that of Richard Strauss ".

" During the writing of the article, Coe contacted Strauss, but Strauss did not acknowledge any interaction between the two in his article, which only stated that Coe's manager refused to speak on the record.

In his posts as head of ( sequentially ) the Bavarian State Opera, Meiningen Court Orchestra, and Berlin Philharmonic he brought a level of nuance and subtlety to orchestral performance previously heard only in solo instrumental playing, and in doing so made a profound impression on young artists like Richard Strauss, who at the age of 20 served as his assistant, and Felix Weingartner, who came to disapprove of his interpretations but was deeply impressed by his orchestral standards.

Levi Strauss & Co. was the only successful defendant, winning the case against them in 2004.

Heidegger, in Strauss ' view, sanitized and politicized Nietzsche, whereas Nietzsche believed " our own principles, including the belief in progress, will become as relative as all earlier principles had shown themselves to be " and " the only way out seems to be ... that one voluntarily choose life-giving delusion instead of deadly truth, that one fabricate a myth ".

Strauss believed that philosophers should play a role in politics only to the extent that they can ensure that philosophy, which he saw as mankind's highest activity, can be free from political intervention.

After an exegesis of the very limited practical political views to be gleaned from Strauss's writings, Tarcov concludes that " Strauss can remind us of the permanent problems, but we have only ourselves to blame for our faulty solutions to the problems of today.

According to a study funded by Strauss, Israel's leading krembo producer, 69 % of Israelis prefer to eat krembos from the top down ( starting with the cream ), and only 10 % start with the biscuit at the bottom ; the rest had no preference.

After Helmut Kohl's first run for chancellor in 1976 failed, Strauss cancelled the alliance between the CDU and CSU parties in the Bundestag, a decision which he only took back months later when the CDU threatened to extend their party to Bavaria ( where the CSU holds a political monopoly for the conservatives ).

Strauss was one of the few Western leaders, if not the only one, to visit the isolationist Albania in decades.

From the early 20th century until the 1960s, continental philosophers were only intermittently discussed in British and American universities, despite an influx of continental philosophers, particularly German Jewish students of Nietzsche and Heidegger, to the United States on account of the persecution of the Jews and later World War II ; Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss, Theodor W. Adorno, and Walter Kaufmann are probably the most notable of this wave, arriving in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

After many setbacks, including the destruction of the EMP device by a Strogg ambush, Kane is left to complete the mission, assisted only by Private Johann Strauss and Lance Corporal Nikolai " Sledge " Slidjonovitch.

A young woman, Cresta Lee ( Bergen ), and young U. S. private Honus Gent ( Strauss ) are joined together by fate when they are the only two survivors after a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne.

Contrary to an advertising campaign suggesting that Levi Strauss sold his first jeans to gold miners during the California Gold Rush ( which peaked in 1849 ), the manufacturing of denim overalls only began in the 1870s.

" He's surely the only man or woman in America that I know who could make the NEC succeed ," Strauss said in 1994.

Although the work was based on the same Nietzsche work as Richard Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra, Delius distanced himself from the Strauss work, which he considered a complete failure.

Although it is largely disputed whether Strauss himself was a historicist, he often indicated that historicism grew out of Christianity and was a threat to civic participation, a belief in human agency, religious pluralism, and, most controversially, an accurate understanding of the classical philosophers and religious prophets themselves.

Leo Strauss, an American political philosopher, declared himself more inclined toward the traditional view that Machiavelli was self-consciously a " teacher of evil ," ( even if he was not himself evil ) since he counsels the princes to avoid the values of justice, mercy, temperance, wisdom, and love of their people in preference to the use of cruelty, violence, fear, and deception.

The combined influence of Ravel, Hindu spiritualism and English folk tunes enabled Holst to free himself of the influence of Wagner and Strauss and to forge his own style.

Strauss himself declared in 1947 with characteristic self-deprecation, " I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

By doing so, the artist triumphs over depression and discouragement in the Finale, " E. D. U. " So, like some works of Elgar ’ s contemporaries Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler, the Enigma Variations are about the artist himself: ( almost ) all the themes of the work are in fact derived from the ‘ Elgar theme ’.

Johann Strauss I himself refused to play ever again at the Dommayer's Casino, which offered his son his conducting debut, and was to tower over his son during his lifetime in terms of career advancement, although Strauss II was to eclipse him in terms of popularity in the classical repertoire.

Hector Berlioz himself paid tribute to the ' Father of the Viennese Waltz ' by commenting that " Vienna without Strauss is like Austria without the Danube ".

Alexander Ritter, who himself composed six symphonic poems in the vein of Liszt's works, directly influenced Richard Strauss in writing program music.

During this tour, Fagen introduced himself as " Rick Strauss " and Becker as " Frank Poulenc ".

It was called the Marseillaise of the heart ( Eduard Hanslick, a critic from Vienna in the past century ) and was supposed to have saved Vienna the revolution ( sentence of a biographer of the composer Johann Strauss I ), while Strauss I himself was called the Napoleon Autrichien ( Heinrich Laube, poet from the north of Germany ).

Strauss himself noted that he came from a " conservative, even orthodox Jewish home ," but one which knew little about Judaism except strict adherence to ceremonial laws.

Strauss distinguished " scholars " from " great thinkers ", identifying himself as a scholar.

For highlighting the classical and medieval distinction between esoteric and exoteric dimensions of speech, Strauss is often accused of having himself written esoterically.

Strauss was not himself an orthodox believer, neither was he a convinced atheist.

He called himself Franz Strauss until soon after the war when he started using his middle name Josef as well.

On radio, Sessions guested in December 1997 on the regular BBC Radio 3 show Private Passions, presented by Michael Berkeley, not as himself but as a 112-year-old Viennese percussionist called Manfred Sturmer, who told anecdotes ( about Brahms, Clara Schumann, Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg and others ) so realistically that some listeners did not realise that the whole thing was a hoax.

He is called this again by Tracy Strauss, after which he excuses himself before punching her in the face.

Possibly the most adept at musical depiction in his program music was the German composer Richard Strauss, whose symphonic poems include Death and Transfiguration ( portraying a dying man and his entry into heaven ), Don Juan ( based on the ancient legend of Don Juan ), Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks ( based on episodes in the career of the legendary German figure Till Eulenspiegel ), Don Quixote ( portraying episodes in the life of Miguel de Cervantes ' character, Don Quixote ), A Hero's Life ( which depicts episodes in the life of an unnamed hero often taken to be Strauss himself ) and Symphonia Domestica ( which portrays episodes in the composer's own married life, including putting the baby to bed ).

Strauss himself became a man of influence: acting on behalf of a representative of Finland, he persuaded Hoover to urge President Woodrow Wilson to recognize Finland's independence from Russia.