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Ep. 305: Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" (Part Two)

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Goal Directed Behavior Is Always Heteronomy

In chapter 12, when the judge, what's the beef between the judge and the kid? The judge suspects that the kid is appealing to the moral law instead of the law of history. He'll say at the end in Griffin as well, war is dishonored when his nobility is called into question. And therefore you poison the enterprise. You dishonored war. War is actually holy. That's ultimately why it seems it's a little unclear in the end of he kills a kid, but it seems that he does. I want to evaluate Judge Holden a little bit on this.

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