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247. The War On The West | Douglas Murray
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Is There a Universally Valid Human Essence?
Douglas Rushkoff: It's very difficult for people to understand that there is a universally valid human essence across cultures. Most isolated peoples have regarded their own citizens as human and everyone else who isn't part of that group as not fully human, he says. He argues that the notion of divine individual worth was developed and instituted in social institutions most effectively and in some sense solely in the West.rushkoff: We shouldn't be lulled into thinking that as you pointed out that those are human norms in some sense, they're not quite the contrary.
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