Who was one of Strauss's mentors?
Ernst Cassirer
Albert Einstein
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
Answer
Ernst Cassirer was one of Strauss's mentors. Cassirer was a German philosopher and historian of ideas who had a profound influence on Strauss's intellectual development. Strauss studied under Cassirer at the University of Berlin in the early 1920s, and Cassirer's work on the history of philosophy and the nature of human understanding had a significant impact on Strauss's own thinking.
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