史特勞斯為當代最傑出與最偉大的政治哲學史家與政治哲學家。本文 試圖對史對政治哲學獨特的基本看法作全面性但非等量的忠實介紹。首先被本文 簡單加以介紹者，為史如何將政治哲學界定為一種不同於一般政治思想的獨特政 治思想：它所不斷持續追求者為關於政治事務的性質及正當或良好政治秩序或體 制的普通及永恆的知識。接著被本文比較詳加介紹者乃本文的重心所在：即史如 何以其獨特的政治哲學的定義為準則，以分別詮釋政治哲學史中古典政治哲學與 現代政治哲學兩大類型各自的特點，以及前者如何轉型為後者而呈現出兩者同中 的顯著基本差異。最後轉移至適度介紹史對當代政治哲學沒落的根源及其復興之 道的獨特看法。在當代政治哲學沒落方面。本文所介紹者為史如何追溯當代政治 哲學沒落之根源至當代哲學中實證主義與歷史主義兩大反對勢力之徹底拒絕政 治哲學。在復興政治哲學方面，本文所介紹者為史如何從對政治哲學史的研究中 找出批判實證主義與歷史主義以維護政治哲學的方法，以及他如何從回歸古典政 治哲學中找出復興當代政治哲學的起點。（介紹史特勞斯如何以其獨特的政治哲 學的定義為準則，以分別詮釋政治哲學中古典政治哲學與現代政治哲學兩大類型 各自的特點，以及前者如何轉型為後者而呈現出兩者同中的顯著基本差異，原為 本文重心之所在，可惜該部份由於份量太多而本刊的篇幅有限，最後在付印時不 得不完全被刪除。所幸本文在作結論時對該部份有簡略的摘要，勉強可以發揮亡 羊補牢的作用）

　　　　　Leo Strauss is one of the most excellent and greatest historians of political philosophy and political philosophers in our time. This paper is an attempt to introduce, comprehensively but not equally, his unique and basic views on political philosophy. First of all, it introduces briefly how he defines political philosophy as a distinctive kind of political thought which pursues consistently general and eternal knowledge about both the nature of political things and the right or good political order. Regarding the decline of contemporary political philosophy, this paper introduces how Leo Strauss tracks of the roots of the decline to the radical rejection of political philosophy by both positivism and historicism, the two powerful adversaries of political philosophy in contemporary philosophy. With regards to the revival of political philosophy, this paper introduces how Strauss finds out the way to criticize both positivism and historicism in defense of political philosophy from his study of the history of political philosophy and how he discovers the starting – point for reviving contemporary political philosophy from his return to classical political philosophy.