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Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager

Timeless Wisdom: Ultimate Issues Hour - How Do You Make A Good Person?

Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager

Salem Podcast Network

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Politics

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

On Today's Show: Prager explores the ultimate question: how do you make a good person? He argues that being good doesn't come naturally and that it's up to society and parents to make it a priority. Dennis shares his insights on the importance of battling one's own nature, teaching children to share, and developing a code of behavior. 

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0:00.0

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0:05.1

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0:10.1

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0:30.9

Welcome to Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager.

0:34.3

Hear thousands of hours of Dennis's lectures, courses, and classic radio programs, and to purchase Dennis Prager's rational Bibles, go to Dennis Prager.com.

0:48.0

You're listening to the Dennis Prager Show to the Ultimate Issues Hour.

0:55.2

Every week at this hour, I talk about some great issue of life, some ultimate issue, as I call it,

1:02.7

in the hope that we can understand life and understand it better and live it better.

1:09.6

I have talked to you on many occasions about the fact, not my belief,

1:16.0

the fact that the human being is not basically good,

1:19.8

that we have not, I don't believe basically evil either necessarily,

1:23.8

but I do believe that what is pretty obvious, and that is that untutored, undisciplined,

1:33.0

the human being is more likely to do more bad than good, that there is great work necessary

1:39.7

to make good people.

1:41.6

And that is the subject of this edition of the Ultimate Issues Hour.

1:47.8

How do you make a good person?

1:53.8

Well, the truth is, in order to make a good person, the first thing you have to do is realize that you have to make one.

2:04.0

That is lost upon vast numbers of people, especially, especially, especially in our time.

2:13.6

We do live, remember, in the age of stupidity.

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