Jordan Peterson’s lecture biblical Series XI: Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham opens his heart and hearth to the stranger. The denizens of Lot’s cities threaten them with violent rape. God exacts a terrible retribution. The warning is clear.
Category: Lectures
2017 Maps of Meaning 11: The Flood and the Tower
Jordan Peterson’s discussion of the beginning of Genesis, including the story of the Tower of Babel, which he reads as a very old warning about the danger of erecting something akin to a totalitarian/utopian secular state.
Lecture: Biblical Series X: Abraham: Father of Nations
Lecture: Biblical Series X: Abraham: Father of Nations is the tenth lecture of Jordan Peterson’s 12-part initial Biblical lecture series. This lecture was held on Aug 8, 2017.
2017 Personality 18: Biology & Traits: Openness/Intelligence/Creativity I
Jordan Peterson talks about Big Five trait openness to experience, which is the dimension composed of an amalgam of creativity and intelligence. He also talks about IQ.
2017/04/10: Harvard Talk: Postmodernism & the Mask of Compassion
Jordan Peterson was invited to talk at Harvard University about Postmodernism & the Mask of Compassion, on the use of compassion as a mask for the advance of the profoundly anti-western postmodern and neomarxist doctrines.
2017 Personality 13: Existentialism via Solzhenitsyn and the Gulag
The dreadful socio-political consequences of the individual inauthentic life: the degeneration of society into nihilism or totalitarianism
Joseph T. Salerno – Calculation and Socialism
Joseph T. Salerno about Calculation and Socialism in this lecture. It was presented at the 2013 Mises University, hosted by the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 23 July 2013.
2017 Maps of Meaning 03: Marionettes and Individuals (Part 2)
Analysis of the Disney film Pinocchio to illustrate the manner in which great mythological or archetypal themes inform and permeate both the creation and the understanding of narratives.
2017 Maps of Meaning 10: Genesis and the Buddha
The creation stories in Genesis, the first book of the Bible, and describe the parallels with the stories of the development of the Buddha from childhood to early adulthood.
Jordan Peterson – 2017 Maps of Meaning 06: Story and Metastory (Part 2)
“Uncertainty, or anomaly. We frame the world — or the world reveals itself to us — as a story, with a starting point, a destination, and the behavioral means to move from one to the other”.