Modernity And The Human Condition

This paper is a critical reflection of Leo Strauss’s discussion of the quarrel of the ancients and the mordens and makes an in-depth discussion of the following four questions:The contradictions that Strauss’s way of dealing with the crisis of modernity faces;The weakness of Strauss’s critique of Modernity;The theoretical predicament of classical rationalism advocated by Strauss himself and the possibility of absolute value on the basis of the previous discussions.Through the analysis,the following four conclusions are obtained:The possible way Strauss advocates to return to the ancients is in contradiction with its classical contents;Strauss’s critique of modernity is mainly by resorting to consequences rather than falsification;The classical rationalism advocated by Strauss is also questionable by the reason that the whole is fundamentally unknowable;The absolute value of human nature is not possible because of the multiplicity of human nature,the logical irrelevance of good and eternity,the theoretical contradiction of the existence of self-evident good and other reasons.