列奥·施特劳斯对柏拉图政治哲学的研究是富于启发性并颇多争议的。他过多地受到柏拉图的影响———掌握这一点是理解其对现代性危机的解读的门径。他对哲学的必要性的论证, 以及对现代政治哲学的危机何以变成了哲学本身的危机的思想根源的评论, 都给人留下上述印象。但施特劳 Leo Strauss’s research on Plato’s political philosophy is instructive and controversial. Too much influenced by Plato - mastery of this is the way to understand its interpretation of the crisis of modernity. His comments on the necessity of philosophy and his comments on why the crisis of modern political philosophy turned into the ideological root of the crisis of philosophy itself make the same impression. But Strauss