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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Is the Death of God a Demise of the Enlightenment Enterprise?

I'm really worried about the fragility of the enlightenment philosophy. But it's reasonable to view it as a very fragile enterprise, the preconditions for which we don't understand. So I've been wondering more recently is that if the death of God, so to speak, also, although surprisingly, will mean the demise of the Enlightenment enterprise? It was predicated on an unconscious religiosity that presumed the existence of a transcendent object and the possibility of a beneficial relationship between the encourer, the scientist, and that object itself. And... all these sort of things are trying to dismantle what seems to me a completely objective discipline at the same time. Now, how far it'll

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