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Bill Kristol: Philosophy and Politics S1 E12
Meditations with Zohar
Judaism and the Book of King's Discourse
The book of kings reads more like a gam of thrones than it does like a philosophical dialogue. The hope is for a wise kingor a wise rulershipa but often what we get is this kind of scitzophrenia. It's not, you know, the ability to get political power, that's instrumentally good, but it's morally indifferent. But i do think maybe that when you bring back, in a weird way, the diasp made it easier for judaism to be a more philosophic religion. And ato, the rabbis had a slight interest in elevating the wise men and prophetic types over King David. They might have teed off on
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