Ep. 798: What's Old Is New with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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The Inner Daimon
Christopher Hitchens: Why do all people have a fixed moral obligation to love and not murder? When you do something wrong, who's standard are you breaking? Who are you displeasing? The carbon atom, the benzene molecule, who? Socrates answered it like this, when he was on trial for his life. He said that he had an inner daimon, the way he put it, not demon, a daimon, a spirit, and a critic. If God does not exist, what then is the purpose of life? What cheers me up? I suppose mainly gloating over the misfortunes of other people. My only problem is with those who think that they
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