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290. Douglas Murray & Jonathan Pageau

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Is There a Hierarchy of Attention?

The way that God is conceptualized in the Judeo-Christian tradition and maybe more universally is as like an analog of a material cause. And so I'm increasingly thinking about the heavenly hierarchy as a internal, in some sense, psychological structure through which we see the world. It also opens the door to a deeper understanding of the role that fiction and mythology play because it's oriented towards ethics and the direction of attention.

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