359. Separating Good from Evil in the British Empire | Dr. Nigel Biggar
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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🗓️ 22 May 2023
⏱️ 118 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:14.0 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:16.0 | Today I have the privilege of conversing with Professor Nigel Bigger, a distinguished British |
| 0:21.3 | theologian and ethicist. |
| 0:23.6 | His controversial book, Colonialism, Amoral Reckoning, was recently published and hit |
| 0:29.3 | the nonfiction bestseller list in the UK. |
| 0:31.7 | It's now available in North America and English language world. |
| 0:35.4 | We discuss the ethics of the colonial enterprise, the reality and falsehood of the idea of privilege, |
| 0:42.3 | the purposeful and pointless miseries of cancel culture and the separation of good from |
| 0:47.8 | evil in the process of historical analysis. |
| 0:52.1 | So Nigel, we're going to talk today about your book, Colonialism, Amoral Reckoning, which |
| 0:57.2 | has just been released just a few weeks ago, which as I understand is doing quite well. |
| 1:04.7 | I would like maybe to start with the story of why it was that you got drawn into this |
| 1:11.3 | historical, why you decided to write a history of this type. |
| 1:15.3 | It's not precisely in your bailiwick as a as a professor. |
| 1:19.3 | So why don't you outline the circumstances that led to your undertaking this endeavor? |
| 1:26.5 | Yes, Jordan. |
| 1:29.1 | So I'm an academic professor of ethics of Christian ethics. |
| 1:36.0 | And so over the years, I have been in the business of trying to make moral sense and come |
| 1:40.8 | to moral judgments about complicated moral issues. |
| 1:45.8 | For example, the moral problem of war. |
| 1:53.3 | My first university degree and my first love has always been history, so all of my life |
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