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#22 Bishop Robert Barron - Seeking Meaning, Finding God?

Within Reason

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Terra Management Theory

Alexis de Tocqueville: We essentially have a subconscious drive towards doing things which, which, which allow us to outlive ourselves. It's why human beings have an obsession with doing things that are larger than themselves because of the fact that life becomes purposeless and nihilistic. He says Hobbes is one of the masters of this approach - we're just motivated by fear of violent death. And so all the things that we invent about the moral purpose of government and what makes a state just,. forget it, all states are there is to protect us from each other, he says.

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