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The Necessity of Virtue

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Is There a Limitation in Being?

Human being is predicated on a kind of fundamental limitation, in that we are what we are and were not other things. The awareness of human being comes along with suffering. Life poses the question how to conduct yourself in the face of suffering,. Not only yours, but everyone else's. If you can be anything or do anything at any time whatsoever, there's no being because everything is one thing.

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