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291. How to Combat Hedonism | Dr. Peter Kreeft

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

CHAPTER

The Core Ethos of Mephistopheles

Karl Marx once said that his favorite line in all of human literature is from Gertis Faust, where Mephistopheles utters these words: Everything that exists deserves to perish. That is what I would call absolute evil. And so a core satanic ethos, let's say, that non-being is better than being also contradicts the statements in Genesis.

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