Through this society, Evans was introduced to more liberal theologies, and writers such as David Strauss and Ludwig Feuerbach, who cast doubt on the literal veracity of Biblical stories.

According to Strauss, historicism " rejects political philosophy " and is rooted in the belief that " all human thought, including scientific thought, rests on premises which cannot be validated by human reason and which came from historical epoch to historical epoch.

Marilyn Strauss founded the festival in 1993 and it has gone on ever since.

Mötley Crüe had announced that the movie The Dirt, based on the book written by Mötley Crüe and Neil Strauss, might be released in 2009.

Strauss concludes his 1958 Thoughts on Machiavelli by proposing that this promotion of progress leads directly to the modern arms race.

* Leo Strauss: Famously rejected modernity, mostly on the grounds of what he perceived to be modern political philosophy's excessive self-sufficiency of reason and flawed philosophical grounds for moral and political normativity.

Serendipity is used as a sociological method in Anselm L. Strauss ' and Barney G. Glaser's Grounded Theory, building on ideas by sociologist Robert K. Merton, who in Social Theory and Social Structure ( 1949 ) referred to the " serendipity pattern " as the fairly common experience of observing an unanticipated, anomalous and strategic datum which becomes the occasion for developing a new theory or for extending an existing theory.

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 ' 1962 Seminar course transcript on Thucydides.

* Leo Strauss ' Seminar Transcripts on Xenophon ( 1962, 1966 ); and an audio recording of the entire course on Xenophon's Oeconomicus ( 1969 ) are available for reading, listening or download.

" Mark L. Strauss has stated that the majority of changes are " based on advances in biblical scholarship, linguistics, and archaeology ".

* On June 24, 2009, following the California Supreme Court ruling on Strauss v. Horton, Boies joined former Solicitor General Theodore Olson, the opposing attorney in Bush v. Gore, in the lawsuit Perry v. Schwarzenegger seeking to overturn the state of California's Proposition 8 ban on gay marriage.

* Richard Strauss — Salome, opera in one act based on Wilde's play ( 1905 )

* Essay on operettas of Offenbach, Johann Strauss Jr. and their contemporaries

After the back-to-back filming of Rear Window, Toko-Ri, Country Girl and Green Fire, Kelly flew to France, along with department store heir Bernard " Barney " Strauss, to begin work on her third and last film for Alfred Hitchcock, To Catch a Thief.

The most prominent of these was in March 2012, when on Swiss TV after talking of a new movie in which he would play disgraced Monetary fund chief Dominique Strauss Kahn, he said “ I think he is a bit like all French people, a bit arrogant.

* Hector Berlioz ( 1844 ), revised in 1905 by Richard Strauss: Grand traité d ’ instrumentation et d ’ orchestration modernes ( Treatise on Instrumentation ).

Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss was quoted in the Chicago Daily Tribune on February 12, 1955, saying " I hope it will be known as Strauss ' law.

This was partly in response to an embargo on contemporary German music that saw very few performances of Richard Strauss and Max Reger throughout the war ( although older generations of German composers remained as popular as ever, culminating in a run of Die Walküre, conducted by Thomas Beecham, in 1918 ).

After Strauss accepted Davis's offer, the two men received, for an " Improvement in Fastening Pocket-Openings ," on May 20, 1873.

On a national scale, Levi Strauss & CO. was the first to market pre-washed jeans on a nationwide basis, beginning in Oklahoma City & the C. R.

* In 1928, Richard Strauss wrote the German opera Die ägyptische Helena, The Egyptian Helena, which is the story of Helen and Menelaus's troubles when they are marooned on a mythical island.

Richard Strauss was heavily influenced by Wagner, despite his father's efforts to the contrary.

For example, Durandal's rampancy is believed to be caused by his mistreatment at the hands of his handler, Bernard Strauss, as well as his limited existence in opening and closing the Marathon < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s doors.

James Mann points out: " quite a few neo-conservatives, like Wolfowitz, believed strongly in democratic ideals ; they had taken from the philosopher Leo Strauss the notion that there is a moral duty to oppose a leader who is a ' tyrant.

James Mann points out: " quite a few neo-conservatives, like Wolfowitz, believed strongly in democratic ideals ; they had taken from the philosopher Leo Strauss the notion that there is a moral duty to oppose a leader who is a ' tyrant.

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 such an analysis, as in Hobbes's time, served as a useful " preparatory action ", revealing our contemporary orientation towards the eternal problems of politics ( social existence ).

However, Strauss believed that Schmitt's reification of our modern self-understanding of the problem of politics into a political theology was not an adequate solution.

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.

But many, if not most, observers at the time believed that the CDU had concluded that Helmut Schmidt's SPD was likely unbeatable in 1980, and felt that they had nothing to lose in running Strauss.

Strauss did not deny the existence of Jesus, but believed that very few facts could be known about him and characterized the miraculous accounts in the gospels as " mythical ".

Oppenheimer favored a policy of " candor " regarding the numbers and capabilities of the atomic weapons in America's arsenal ; Strauss believed such unilateral frankness would benefit no one but Soviet military planners.

But the prospect of turning cheap and inexhaustible hydrogen into inexpensive power captured the imagination of Lewis Strauss, the AEC chairman from 1953 to 1958, who believed fusion reactors could generate electricity “ too cheap to meter ”.

Strauss did not deny the existence of Jesus, but believed that very few facts could be known about him and characterized the miraculous accounts in the gospels as " mythical ".

It is widely believed that Strauss wrote the work as a statement of mourning for Germany's destruction during the war, in particular as a elegy for devastating bombing of Munich, especially places such as the Munich Opera House.

The major difference between Machiavelli and the Socratics, according to Strauss, is Machiavelli's materialism and therefore his rejection of both a teleological view of nature, and of the view that philosophy is higher than politics.

A number of continental European émigrés to Britain and the United States — including Hannah Arendt, Karl Popper, Friedrich Hayek, Leo Strauss, Isaiah Berlin, Eric Voegelin and Judith Shklar — encouraged continued study in political philosophy in the Anglo-American world, but in the 1950s and 1960s they and their students remained at odds with the analytic establishment.

Carl Schmitt, a legal and political scholar, was also a vocal fascist supporter of both the Nazi regime and Spain's Franco ; however, he published works of political philosophy that remained studied by philosophers and political scholars with radically different views, such as Alain Badiou, Slavoj Žižek, and his contemporaries Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, and Leo Strauss.

To consider to what extent Eastern philosophy might have partaken of these important tensions, Strauss thought it best to consider whether dharma or tao may be equivalent to Nature ( by which we mean physis in Greek ).

According to Strauss the beginning of philosophy involved the " discovery or invention of nature " and the " pre-philosophical equivalent of nature " was supplied by " such notions as ' custom ' or ' ways, which appear to be really universal in all times and places.

Strauss wrote on a wide range of subjects, some of which had been previously considered unsuitable to be set to music, including literature, legend, philosophy and autobiography.

Leo Strauss ( September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973 ) was a German-American political philosopher and classicist who specialized in classical political philosophy.

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 encouraged application of their ideas to contemporary political theory.

For Strauss, politics and philosophy were necessarily intertwined.

Strauss considered one of the most important moments in the history of philosophy Socrates ' argument that philosophers could not study nature without considering their own human nature, which, in the words of Aristotle, is that of " a political animal.

In his published correspondence with Alexandre Kojève, Strauss wrote that Hegel was correct when he postulated that an end of history implies an end to philosophy as understood by classical political philosophy.

According to Strauss, modern social science is flawed because it assumes the fact-value distinction, a concept which Strauss finds dubious, tracing its roots in Enlightenment philosophy to Max Weber, a thinker whom Strauss described as a " serious and noble mind .” Weber wanted to separate values from science but, according to Strauss, was really a derivative thinker, deeply influenced by Nietzsche ’ s relativism.

Strauss instead advocated a return to a broader classical understanding of human nature and a tentative return to political philosophy, in the tradition of the ancient philosophers.

Kojève would later write that, without befriending Strauss, " I never would have known ... what philosophy is.

" The political-philosophical dispute between Kojève and Strauss centred on the role that philosophy should and can be allowed to play in politics.

In the belief that 20th century relativism, scientism, historicism, and nihilism were all implicated in the deterioration of modern society and philosophy, Strauss sought to uncover the philosophical pathways that had led to this situation.

Strauss constantly stressed the importance of two dichotomies in political philosophy: Athens and Jerusalem ( Reason and Revelation ) and Ancient versus Modern.

At the end of his The City and Man, Strauss invites his reader to " be open to the full impact of the all-important question which is coeval with philosophy although the philosophers do not frequently pronounce it — the question quid sit deus " ( p. 241 ).