In “Persecution and the Art of Writing”, Leo Strauss expounded a famous point: philosophy and politics are naturally opposed. For politics necessarily requires an ideology of one kind or another, and philosophy cannot be anything but a retrospective reflection. Starting from this, Strauss pointed out that philosophers will inevitably become the targets of political persecution, so they have to weave texts with both explicit and implicit writing techniques, hiding the appalling true thoughts between the lines, waiting for future generations of philosophers The hook is heavy and hidden, and this has also achieved Strauss’s rather unique approach to text interpretation. However, careful scrutiny reveals that political philosophy inherently contains a…