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Maps of Meaning 10, 11, 12, & 13

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Is There a Polar Distinction Between Good and Evil?

i suppose the idea that lurks behind this formalization is that freedom of choice is such a good that there has to be a polar distinction between good and evil. It's reasonable to presume that that's the manner in which experience is actually structured. And i would also say that it's certainly possible that the full nature of his motivations weren't even necessarily clear to him as they unfolded across time during the second world war. But no more than the full motivations of any human being are necessarily accessible to them as they act out whatever it is that they act out. That doesn't even necessarily mean that what they're doing isn't voluntary, because things can be voluntary even if you don't understand

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