Trusted, Automoderated users
25,837
edits
Jordan Peterson: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
→Beliefs and philosophy
| Line 39: | Line 39: | ||
A main mechanism by which he believes chaos to occur is when important beliefs are suddenly changed (e.g. during a loss of culture or religion) and then the negative human emotion to this tends to be externalized as aggression, since people "prefer war to be something external, than re-forming our challenged beliefs". Of course other things can cause chaos as well, e.g. when people cease to have incentives to cooperate. | A main mechanism by which he believes chaos to occur is when important beliefs are suddenly changed (e.g. during a loss of culture or religion) and then the negative human emotion to this tends to be externalized as aggression, since people "prefer war to be something external, than re-forming our challenged beliefs". Of course other things can cause chaos as well, e.g. when people cease to have incentives to cooperate. | ||
Jordan gained criticism from other academics with regards to his narrative about broad philosophical schools that emerged during a time when there was a decline in the foundations of moral objectivism among the Western population. Philosophers who agree with Jordan about college-campus New Left types and political correctness, such as Hegelian philosopher Slajov Zizek were the most prominent in their criticism. In a broadcasted debate, Zizek accused Peterson of a-historical alarmism.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsHJ3LvUWTs</ref> He accused Jordan of injecting motives and beliefs into philosophies where there are none, ignoring the contempt post-modernists had towards Marxists, and propagating false conspiracy theories about constructionism and relativism being a Marxist or, "radical leftist", plot to destabilize the West. Jordan is criticized as confusing opinions of, "is", with, "ought". He is criticized as mis-characterizing philosophical schools which address widespread non-objectivity as saying there '''should''' be widespread non-objectivity, or that there should be a death of God. | Jordan gained criticism from other academics with regards to his narrative about broad philosophical schools that emerged during a time when there was a decline in the institutional foundations of moral objectivism among the Western population. Philosophers who agree with Jordan about college-campus New Left types and political correctness, such as Hegelian philosopher Slajov Zizek were the most prominent in their criticism. In a broadcasted debate, Zizek accused Peterson of a-historical alarmism.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsHJ3LvUWTs</ref> He accused Jordan of injecting motives and beliefs into philosophies where there are none, ignoring the contempt post-modernists had towards Marxists, and propagating false conspiracy theories about constructionism and relativism being a Marxist or, "radical leftist", plot to destabilize the West. Jordan is criticized as confusing opinions of, "is", with, "ought". He is criticized as mis-characterizing philosophical schools which address widespread non-objectivity as saying there '''should''' be widespread non-objectivity, or that there should be a death of God. | ||
== JRE Podcast & accusations of hypocrisy == | == JRE Podcast & accusations of hypocrisy == | ||