Meditations with Zohar

Leon Kass: The Taming of the Shrewd S1 E23

Dec 14, 2022

01:20:32

Highlights

AI Chapters

Episode notes

Is Man Godlike?

05:29

The Origins of Liberalism

05:40

The Story of the Golden Calf Is a Success

03:33

Introduction

2min

Moral Virtue Versus Intellectual Virtue

5min

The Enlightenment and Rousseau

3min

The Virtues of the Intellect and Moral Virtue and Tandem

4min

The Origins of Liberalism

6min

The Role of Tradition in a Liberal Society

4min

What Do You Think We Can Learn From Isaac?

3min

The Question of Passing Something on to the Next Generation

5min

Yitzhak After the Akhedah

2min

10.

I Feel Bad for Asaf, Don't You Have a Blessing for Me?

4min

11.

The Adventures of Odysseus, the Taming of the Shrude

3min

12.

Is There a Turning Point for Yakov?

4min

13.

The Wrestling Match With the Eponymous Name That Becomes the Name of the People

4min

14.

What Kind of Education Did Moses Get?

3min

15.

The Reluctant Leader in Judaism and the Excitable Philosopher in Kig?

3min

16.

Mosheb, Are You Really Going to Take on the Job of These People?

4min

17.

The Story of the Golden Calf Is a Success

4min

18.

Is the Torah Teaching of Humility a Part of the People?

4min

19.

Patele Malokim

1min

20.

Is Man Godlike?

5min

21.

Aristotle's Udaimonia and Niko Mihkan Ethics

5min

22.

Meditation With Zohar

3min

This week, Zohar is joined by Leon Kass, Dean of Faculty at Shalem College, to discuss the Book of Genesis, Rousseau, Odysseus, moral vs. intellectual virtue, the challenge of transmitting tradition, and the need for clever people to accept their limits.