Adam and Eve: Self-Consciousness, Evil, and Death

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Society & Culture, Science, Education

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🗓️ 1 July 2017

⏱️ 154 minutes

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Lecture 4 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories lecture series I turned my attention in this lecture to the older of the two creation accounts in Genesis: the story of Adam and Eve. In its few short paragraphs, it covers: the emergence of human self-consciousness; mankind's attendant realization of vulnerability, mortality, and death; the origin of the capacity for willful evil, as the ability to exploit that newly-realized vulnerability. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Jordan B. Peterson Podcast.
0:04.9	You can support these podcasts by donating to Dr. Peterson's Patreon account, the link
0:09.1	to which can be found in the description.
0:11.6	Dr. Peterson's self-development programs, self-authoring, can be found at selfauthoring.com.
0:17.4	This is Episode 22.
0:20.0	This podcast episode is the fourth installment of Dr. Peterson's psychological significance
0:24.0	of the biblical stories lecture series.
0:27.3	This episode focuses on Adam and Eve, and is entitled Adam and Eve, Self-consciousness,
0:32.0	Evil and Death.
0:33.9	Dr. Peterson will be performing the remainder of the lecture series at the Isabel Bayter
0:37.6	Theatre in Toronto.
0:39.3	Tickets can be found at JordanB. Peterson.com slash Bible hyphen series, or by finding
0:44.9	the link in the description.
1:00.8	Hello everyone.
1:05.0	So hopefully we're going to get past Genesis 1 today.
1:07.6	That's the theory.
1:09.5	So I finished my new book yesterday.
1:16.5	Yes, that's taken about three years of writing.
1:25.6	It's quite a long time to write something.
1:27.8	So yeah, it's done except for the mopping up, you know, copy editing and that sort of thing.
1:33.9	So hopefully it's as good as I can make it.
1:36.0	I don't know if that's any good, but it's as good as I can make it anyways.
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