Aristotle and Jewish Political Thought

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What does Aristotle’s understanding of politics share with Judaism’s? William Kristol offers a theory. According to him, both Aristotle and Judaism reject the idea of inevitable progress. They also both have comparably few hard and fast rules every regime must adhere to in order to be a just regime. In this way, they are the opposite of the often-religious anti-political thinkers like Augustine and Oakeshott. 

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