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Carl Trueman - A Hidden Revolution of the Self

Subversive w/Alex Kaschuta

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The Importance of Authority in the Modern World

There is a move from figures such as Descartes and Rousseau who focus on the inner space upon the mind as being foundational for authority. There's definitely an intellectual genealogy that leads from them to the present day where we play such tremendous authority on our feelings, he says. The idea of me and my inner feelings having authority can only become plausible in a world where external authority is becoming weaker,. So if I was to tell that story, certainly one would want to look at the West, at least, and it's very Western narrative.

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