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291. How to Combat Hedonism | Dr. Peter Kreeft

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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I Think the Postmodernist Has Lost the Will to Truth, but the Atheists Haven't.

Nietzsche is the first, as far as I know, in the history of human thought to explicitly deny the will to truth. He says, why truth, why not rather untruth,. His contrast between the Dionysian and the Epilonian tears the human heart apart more radically than anything else I think I've ever encountered. And so that if we kill off the Judeo-Christian or even the Abrahamic tradition under the onslaught of postmodern criticism, we're also going to simultaneously kill off scientific inquiry and scientific endeavor.

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