The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast Adam and Eve: Self-Consciousness, Evil, and Death
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Jul 1, 2017 AI Snips
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Adam and Eve: Origin of Self-Consciousness
- Adam and Eve story symbolizes emergence of human self consciousness and vulnerability.
- It introduces awareness of mortality, future, and the capacity for willful evil.
Human vs Animal Self-Consciousness
- Human self consciousness is uniquely advanced, particularly in its awareness of time and personal mortality.
- Animal self consciousness is primitive and incomparable to human awareness of future and death.
Paradise as Balanced Garden
- Paradise is metaphorically a walled garden symbolizing balanced integration of culture (order) and nature (chaos).
- Humans are meant to tend and protect this balanced environment for flourishing life.