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290. Douglas Murray & Jonathan Pageau

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Is There a Unity of Good?

If you were a photo realist painter, you could spend a month painting all the reflections on that glass. It's a very complex thing to perceive but we know this neuropsychologically. You are willing to drink water to survive because you believe emotionally and motivationally and perhaps rationally that survival is a good. And that's dependent on your belief that human existence in some sense is a good or it's striving towards some sort of higher unified order. The hierarchy of attention you bring to bear on an object determines its array of manifestations depending on your intent.

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