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Conversations: With Professor John Gray, Political Philosopher & Author

John Anderson: Conversations

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The West's Simple Minded Idea of Human Reason

I think the West has had a very simple minded idea of human reason, the human rationality and it's extended not only in philosophy and economics but even into the theory of nuclear and terrorists. I'm not sure it doesn't happen already. Might happen or we all choose to be god to have our own lives when I decide I'm God, we decide you're God where we've got a problem. Who controls the relations between gods? And then it becomes a struggle over power. It becomes a power struggle. Yeah, because one of seeking cooperation. And also there are no common rules there. But if you're the Nazis or if you're Putin in a way, you have no time

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