 For Strauss, the “Averroistic view” that is “an alternative medieval interpretation of Aristotle’s doctrine” is based on the Islamic reception of Plato’s Laws and hence is Platonic in a way that the Christian reading of Aristotle is not. Plato and the “Jewish Aristotelians,” Strauss insists, recognize a fundamental tension between philosophy and law, which is also the tension between philosophy and “the city.” As Strauss makes clear in Natural Right and History, it is the Christian interpretation of Aristotle, and particularly Thomas Aquinas’ notion of natural law, that denies this tension: “The Thomistic doctrine of natural right or, more generally expressed, of natural law is free from the hesitations and ambiguities which are characteristic of the teachings, not only of Plato and Cicero, but of Aristotle as well…. No doubt is left…” (NRH, p. 163). We have seen that for Strauss, leaving doubt behind is the intellectual error that led to the theologico-political predicament of the early twentieth-century, with ultimately terrible consequences for reason, morality, and politics.