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290. Douglas Murray & Jonathan Pageau

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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How Do We Characterize Them?

Jordan Ben-Ghiat: In the biblical corpus, God is the ultimate fictional character. He says that if we have to perceive the world with its multiplicity of possibilities through the lens of an ethic, that ethic becomes the defining tool for extracting factual information out of the infinite array of information. "Fiction then becomes the deepest form of ethical abstraction," he says.

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