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291. How to Combat Hedonism | Dr. Peter Kreeft
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Building a Cathedral in Relation to the Most Glorious
I love the old story about some peasants hauling stones on logs through the mud in a storm to build one of the great medieval cathedrals. Well, and it does make you think it like I know from a psychological perspective that the emotional functions that fill us with enthusiasm and hope are related to our apprehension of sequential goals. So can imagine that we have nested goals. And so might be getting the mud through or getting the rocks through a swamp and then getting the rocks to the building site and then building the foundation, etc. But then it's building the foundation and having a family and doing that within a community and then building a cathedral in relationship to the highest glory of the most glorious
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