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278. The Matter with Things | Iain McGilchrist
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Is Attention an Ethical Act?
i think it's a key insight to make the case that attention is a moral act. And i believe that our ideas of heavenly hierarchy, in some sense, are an intuited represent represent on of the ethical hierarchy which actually directs our attention. If it's not united, then it's fragmentary, and that causes anxiety. If it is united, it has to be united towards some transcendent goal,. That would something like paradisal vision, right? That's the best all things could be. But what is lovely is that you raise this issue of love as a corpart of creation, which is a common theme to every religious tradition all over the world. I see the story of
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