The reasons that free speech must be paramount among the intrinsic rights. There is no difference between free speech and free thought, for starters, and without free thought, it is impossible to know oneself or the world.
Category: Lectures
Lecture: Biblical Series VII: Walking with God: Noah and the Flood
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson intermingle the story of Noah and his survival with elements of the Sermon on the Mount, making the effort to explain to a modern audience why careful moral attitude and behavior comprises the best defence against “the righteous anger of God.”
Lecture: 2017 Maps of Meaning 01: Context and Background
Jordan B. Peterson discusses the context within which the theory he was delineating through this course emerge: that of the cold war. What is belief? Why is it so important to people? Why will they fight to protect it?
2017 Personality 21: Biology & Traits: Performance Prediction
Peterson talks about the thorny problem of predicting performance: academic, industrial, creative and entrepreneurial); about the practical utility of such prediction, in the business and other environments; about the economic value of accurate prediction
2017 Personality 07: Carl Jung and the Lion King (Part 1)
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson uses Disney’s Lion King to further illustrate the basic principles of the personality and clinical theories of Dr. Carl Gustav Jung, student of Nietzsche and Freud, originator of analytical psychology.
2017 Maps of Meaning 09: Patterns of Symbolic Representation
In this lecture, 2017 Maps of Meaning 09: Patterns of Symbolic Representation, Jordan B. Peterson discuss the manner in which the fundamental symbolic archetypes are hijacked for the purposes of propaganda.
2016 Lecture 03 Maps of Meaning: Part I: The basic story and its transformations
2016 Lecture 03 Maps of Meaning: Part I: The basic story and its transformations. A story tells about a journey from point a to point b. A revolutionary story, a meta-story, describes how one story was transformed by anomaly and crisis into another.
Biblical Series VIII: The Phenomenology of the Divine
In this lecture, Biblical Series VIII: The Phenomenology of the Divine, Jordan B. Peterson continues in the next series of stories. Peterson attempts to determine how are we, as modern people, to make sense of the idea of the God who reveals himself to a personality.
2017/03/11: Strengthen the Individual: Q & A Parts I & II
2017/03/11: Strengthen the Individual: Q & A Parts I & II is part I & II of the Question and Answer session that followed Jordan Peterson’s talk Saturday March 11 at the Ottawa Public Library.
2017 Personality 02/03: Historical & Mythological Context
Jordan Peterson provides some historical context for the understanding of personality, suggesting that the clinical theories, concerned with the transformation and improvement of personality and character, are embedded within a classic narrative/mythological structure.