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Tragedy vs. Evil

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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How to Distinguish Evil From Tragedy

i've probably spent my whole life trying to understand what evil was, and more importantly, what might be done about it. It's a strange pursuit, in some ways, for an academic to undertake because academics tend to talk about academic things. And i don't think you can talk about it evil at all until you distinguish it from tragedy. I would say that the nature of human being is such that it consists of a confrontation with the bounded finite, with the unbounded infinite. The first of those consequences is s that the finite is always overwhelmed by the infinite. Its that suffering es sential to the nature ofHuman existence.

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