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Sir Roger Scruton

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Humanities Can Help Us Walk Through the Souls of Others

The humanities can help us walk through the souls of others, he says. A fictional character is actually a composite of many people and so it's got a richness sometimes that a photograph can't match. And we don't necessarily come to a conclusion that therefore I don't want to be like that. It might be just enough to say, now I see that that's a possible human being. He adds: "There's nothing greater than you can do for people than to introduce them into those patterned stories"

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