Bill Kristol: Philosophy and Politics S1 E12
Meditations with Zohar
Philosophy and Politics, Philosophy and Social Life Come Closer Together
Strauss thinks that the best philosophy can hope for, at least in his debate with kache, is a little garden in a little academy where philosophers can be fenced off from the cares of the world. He calls these vulgar pleasures. Politics is as much a vulgar, vulgar pleasure As a a sex or food. A, and philosophers should hope to speak to other philosophies across time and place, but they should never hope to make the ruling class better. Ah, that's a failed endeavor.
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