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Apr 2025
1h 40m

536. Ancient Stories That Bridge The Hea...

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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Jordan Peterson sits down with author, professor, and Dean of Intellectual Foundations at the University of Austin, Jacob Howland. They discuss man’s finitude and his grasping for the infinite, how orientation can provide limitless abundance or a bottomless fall, where Socrates and the Talmud overlap, and why God offers Abraham adventure as the covenant.   J ... Show More
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