KILL THE KING, LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR THOMAS J. CATLAW Arizona State University Can we love our neighbors as ourselves? Though never stated explicitly in this form, I believe that this is nevertheless the central question or problem posed by David Farmer (2005b) in To Kill the King. No doubt love, we know, has figured prominently in 02a, 2002b, 2003a, 2003b, 2005a). But does neighbor-love warrant such pride of place in a text that incites symbolic regicide? Can killing the king create conditions for loving our neighbors and open us to a poetics of post- traditional governance? I believe (or hope) so. probably the central idea in that it orients us towards the uments. He writes, -traditional practitioner is, and should be, should not stick merely with efficiency as a regulative ideal for motivation. Post-traditional governance is, and should be, fueled by love for the regulative ideal of, like Romeo and Juliet and vice versa, love for each whole person-in- her-herself in-her-difference a regulative idea is not, however, to encourage an abstract or celebrity-like dec