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142. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Existentialism)

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The End of Moral Interpretation of the World

Scepticism regarding morality is what is decisive. The end of the moral interpretation of the world, which no longer has any sanction after it has tried to escape into some beyond, leads to nihilism. All lacks meaning. And nici also understood that if people fell prey to a religion, to a rigid ideology, or several rigid itiologiesa the only plausible outcome of that would be exceptionally intense warfare. But nica says it's even worse than that. It's not only that you fall into nothing. It's that once one of your systems of belief has been destroyed, you also learn that systems of beliefs themselves are unreliable....

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