Exploring the Ingredients of the Enlightenment

My conversation with philosopher and author Peter Boghossian.

Topics we discuss are well captured by the timestamps below.

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Timestamps

0:00 - The enlightenment

5:51 - The dangers of moral relativism

21:28 - Modern education is failing us

31:14 - What’s worth preserving in the West

37:00 - Is wokeism filling the void left by atheism?

38:04 - The spread of Islamism

45:49 - Speech is not violence

49:11 - Derangements of science

52:48 - The myth of the framework

56:34 - Why you should learn epistemology

58:05 - The instinct to belong trumps what’s true

1:02:44 - Chasing likes versus pursuing truth

1:05:08 - What is Peter most optimistic and most pessimistic about

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