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The Necessity of Virtue

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Are Human Beings Made for Happiness?

Sogenitson, alexander sonitsen wrote the book the gulag archipelago. One of the axes that brought down the thick tree of communest utopianism. The idea that you're made for happiness is not going to be of much comfort under those circumstances. I don't think that modern people can believe in virtue, but not easily,. Because virtue sounds religious, in a sense. We have real trouble with religious preconceptions because our scientific forms of knowledge and fundamental materialism has really radically undermined our ability to believe in any transcendent being. But one thing that modernPeople can believe in, i think, without much difficulty at all, is evil. There's a

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