CEVAP:

Any endeavour to put great minds of political philosophy into historical context would mean, according to Strauss, limiting their significance and undermining the potential political implications of their thought that transcended historical boundaries. For this reason, refurbishing anti-historicism, followers of Leo Strauss emphasized that many political ideas were expressed in rather esoteric terms to avoid political pressure. Grasping the meaning in these political texts required detailed reading which aimed to reach a political wisdom independent from time and place; and this was possible because of the fact that there were commonalities in human experience irrespective of time and place. In other words, caging an idea in social circumstances which formed the ground of that particular idea denies the significance of the idea beyond those circumstances. By denigrating the contextualization of political ideas, the Straussian approach points out the need to conceive universal human condition in an abstract form that aims to evaluate it independently from time and place.