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Peter Thiel: Zero to One

Socrates in the City

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Is There a Shortage of Morality?

"I think there are two different kinds of arguments. It's worth differentiating," he says. "If we'd lived in the time of Christ, we would have done better." He adds that people like Tolstoy or Marx pushed this in a hyper Christian direction. But if you're not as committed to climate change and other issues, it can take all sorts of forms - from anti-Semitism to extreme morality. 'We had to do more than the Christians' is what I'm trying to say about our faith,' writes Richard Dawkins.

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