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Damon Linker: Passionate Skepticism S2 E4

Meditations with Zohar

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Is Philosophy More of a Sect or Is It a Sect?

Strauss: Do you think that politics can and should express your philosophical ideals or as I do not right or is philosophy more of a sect right? Strauss: If you if you read spouses as advancing the argument that just gather around with a handful of friends kind of be a philosophical sect. The Tomytic story of the founding of rabbinic Judaism where Yochan and Benzakai smuggles himself out of the besieged Jerusalem in a coffin to tell the emperor like well forfeit we won't fight you anymore. That's the origin story of Judaism at least for two thousand years until Zionism came along.

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