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Strauss' Persecution and the Art of Writing | The New Thinkery Ep. 46

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Is the Christian Doctrine More Practical Than Persuasion?

For the Jew and the Muslim, the sacred doctrine is at least primarily the legal interpretation of the divine law. And so when you introduce persuasion, you've got room for philosophy in a way that you don't have it if what you're doing is commanding adherence. The one that actually has quasi philosophic, it seems to be a problem. To what extent modernity comes out of Christianity and therefore the later modern problems and the why why us a terrorist system goes away, it doesn't actually have Christian roots.

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