Bill Kristol: Philosophy and Politics S1 E12
Meditations with Zohar
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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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