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The Great Sacrifice: Abraham and Isaac

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

CHAPTER

Why We Don't Make Sacrifices

Moral knowledge is no trivial matter. It's knowledge about how it is that you orient yourself in the world. There's no more profoundly necessary form of knowledge en it's predicated something that's exactly like this. We know that we have to make sacrifices. So then why isn't that we don't aim at what's best and make the sacrifices that are necessary in order to bring that into play? I think it seems to me that, in some sense, that's self evident. The question is why we don't do it. But there's answers to that tooal in the material that we've covered,. Life is hard and it hurts people. It's rife with limitation.

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