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At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
Leo Strauss
Born: September 20, 1899
Died: October 18, 1973 (aged 74)
Bio: Leo Strauss was a German-American political philosopher and classicist who specialized in classical political philosophy. He was born in Germany to Jewish parents and later emigrated from Germany to the United States.
Known for:
- Natural right and history (1953)
- The City and Man (1964)
- Persecution and the Art of Writing (1952)
- On Tyranny (1963)
- The political philosophy of Hobbes (1959)
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