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Ep. 5: The Greatest Intellectual of the 20th Century

Young Heretics

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The Abolition of Man, Part One

We continue to clamor for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. We believe that the only thing that's really real is material, is matter. And then at the same time, we have these big fights over values,. As if values mattered, right? It's a genius and again, very, very short, clear and masterful exposition of the problem. But he hasn't even gotten yet to what he thinks the solution is. That's part two. Part two is called the way; it begins with what you might call a sort of a little piece of comparative anthropology. He says there are actually a series of moral guide lines, moral intuitions in every one of the great cultures

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