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17 Apr 2024 Conversations with Tyler Peter Thiel on Political Theology
“I think in some sense, it’s all the great books. They’re not quite at the scale of these holy books, but there was a way that we treated Shakespeare or Cervantes or Goethe as these almost semi-divine writers, and I think that’s the attitude one has to have to read any of these books appropriately and seriously.”
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- 17 Apr 2024
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…Are there other holy books besides the Bible that you draw ideas and inspiration from? And what would those be? I think in some sense, it’s all the great books. They’re not quite at the scale of these holy books, but there was a way that we treated Shakespeare or Cervantes or Goethe as these almost semi-divine writers, and I think that’s the attitude one has to have to read any of these books appropriately and seriously. So, the Western canon would be your answer, so to speak?…
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