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278. The Matter with Things | Iain McGilchrist

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Is There a Wrong There?

Just because i don't believe in a divine realm, doesn't mean that i don't have moral values. I think it would beulde wrong to suggest that atheists are somehow therefore immoral. We could talk about kindness in terms of kinship and we could talk about it n terms of relation and biological a what would you say, reciprocity. But it's in the ethical domain, specifically speaking, and not in the reductive scientific domain. Er, i don't think with that old picture, you can understand why there is goodness at all. Interestingly, scientists think oe beauty's a tougher one for she a really, really interesting one - but darwin himself twice points out

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