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224. Questioning Sam Harris

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Dostoevsky's the Grand Inquisitor

Dostoyevsky was writing at the same time of nitha, and had quite an influence on nitya. He could go places that dostoevsky couldn't go as a philosopher. And you know, all of us have to come to terms with the fact that our institutions religious and otherwise tend to ossify into these totalitarian structures. They're trying to point to something beyond that but they degenerate and ossify. The real problem is the books themselves betray their merely human origin on every page. So imagine how good book would be if it were truly written by omniscient being? It's trivially easy to imagine that its just so much better

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