“… ‘prophetic’ here is the sense of critique, not the sense of foretelling, and it seems to me that there are lots of philosophical traditions who understand philosophy as critique in one way or another. One can go back at least to Socrates. I think that’s a healthy thing in philosophy, and that philosophy should be epistemic critique, social, ethical and political critique, and religious critique. It should be asking the untimely questions that the prophets of ancient Israel were famous for asking.”
Merold Westphal, in an interview for the Journal of Philosophy and Scripture.
And so if the philosophers are prophets, who are the prophets for the philosophers?
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