Strauss, Leo. Natural Right and History. United Kingdom: University of Chicago Press, 1953.
This is an iconic reading of natural right and natural law in the early modern political thought.
Often cited as a conservative intellectual, in whats is he conservative and what are the implications are questions not simply answered, but require defenses of position.
One of the ways that Strauss is conservative is the very best way, which is that he draws on readings of the classics of political thought.
In sum, if we succumb to historicism the next thing you know we will all be relativists, and that can’t be the path. Because, as we know from Plato we are looking for a truth beyond or outside of history.
This text basically traces how natural right comes to mean power, and natural law dissolves into historical analyses, and somehow historicism can and should be rejected.
