352 - Peter Boghossian - What Is Religion?

The Symbolic World

Jonathan Pageau

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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In this conversation, American philosopher and author Peter Boghossian picks my brain about my beliefs, religion, its purpose and truth claims, the origin of the universe, and the meaning of gods or higher beings. We also discuss doubt, the efficacy of prayer, and the effects of meaning. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	This is Jonathan Peugeot.
0:13.0	Welcome to the symbolic world. All right.
0:26.6	And so everyone, I am very happy to be here with Peter Bogogian.
0:30.2	All of you will know him.
0:31.7	You know, if you're kind of in the conversation of meaning and of, you know, the problem of woke culture and how to react to it
0:39.6	and how to kind of save our Western society. He's now affiliated with the University of Austin,
0:46.3	and we met in London last year. It wasn't during our, like it was around, I think, no, it wasn't
0:52.8	during our, It was before.
0:56.8	We had a bit of a conversation by religion.
1:02.8	And we both were very critical of a lot of the postmodern stuff because of how religious it is.
1:03.6	And the surprise in the discussion with Peter was wondering, well, if you think that, why then
1:08.8	do you like religion?
1:10.6	And so why do you're not critical about against religion itself?
1:13.7	And so we thought it would be a great opportunity to continue the conversation.
1:17.5	So, Peter, thanks for coming up.
1:19.2	Thanks, Jonathan.
1:19.8	Thanks for having me.
1:20.5	I think we met in an unheard event, didn't we?
1:23.0	Yeah, that's right.
1:23.6	That's right.
1:24.1	It was, yeah it i forget it was it's actually the showing of your documentary of the
1:27.8	documentary about mike natus documentary yeah yeah about the the the whole uh paper all the papers
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