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359. Separating Good from Evil in the British Empire | Dr. Nigel Biggar

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Trustworthiness of the Source of Truth

The radical postmodern slash neo-Marxist claim is that all claims to truth are essentially masks for an underlying drive to power, sort of a demented Nietzscheanism. And even if you claim to be, as you're claiming now, to be the representative of a higher truth, all that is is a particularly subtle and insidious justification of your underlying motivation. What's missing here is any sense of self-criticism and any kind of self-awareness because the cynicism is directed completely externally.

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