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Yaron Brook Show
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The Importance of Positive Philosophy
Why does pessimism sell so well? Is it because religion, especially the religious, the original sin aspect is still so influential? I think a lot of it is original sin. It's this idea that things cannot be good. We don't deserve goodness. We don’t deserve a good life. If you don't have positive goals, if youdon't have positive philosophy by which to live, it's very easy to get caught up in how evil and bad things are. This is the world of reason. But we have reason to evaluate the risks and to evaluate what we should be afraid of or not.
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