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Tragedy vs. Evil

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

CHAPTER

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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