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Interviews

2020-04-10T01:12:49Z

Jochen weber: /* Friendly and cooperative interviews */

Ever since his strong objections to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Act_to_amend_the_Canadian_Human_Rights_Act_and_the_Criminal_Code Canadian Bill C-16], Jordan Peterson has become an important voice of the public discourse around topics of political correctness and the preservation of existing cultural norms. In consequences, he has been interviewed much more frequently in the past few years, so there is a bias toward interviews from that period.

=== Friendly and cooperative interviews ===
{| class="wikitable"
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! Date (published) !! Link !! Participants !! Content and keywords
|-
| November 12th 2019 || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0P6H7cm0E4 REXTV] || Rex Murphy || ''(58 mins)'' An open conversation with Rex Murphy about the modern state of education, politics, identity, and new media. Recorded in early September. For those international viewers, unfamiliar with Canadian media, it will be useful for you to know that Rex Murphy is one of Canada's premier journalists: tough, truthful, politically correct, and possessed of a singular style and character.
|-
| Feb 21st 2019 || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Aiv6xJxkE Ralston College] || Stephen Blackwood || (''93 mins'') Dr Jordan Peterson speaks with Dr Stephen Blackwood about our cultural inflection point and higher education, as well as hierarchies, Solzhenitsyn, redemption, and the hunger for meaning.
|-
| Feb 13th 2019 || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyQCBGxVZE8 Think Club Archive] || Sean Plunkett || (''43 mins'') New Zealand radio host chats with Dr Peterson about the hysterical reaction of some activist groups to Dr Peterson's forthcoming trip to the country as part of his worldwide tour.
|-
| Nov 30th 2019 || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1opHWsHr798 Rubin Report] || Dave Rubin || (''121 mins'') Dr Peterson and Ben Shapiro discuss religion, trans activism, free speech and censorship
|-
| October 28th 2018 || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvBbxbjFRw4 Valuetainment interview] || Patrick Bet-David || (''80 mins'') A wide-ranging discussion which includes Peterson's early life, current events, Justin Trudeau, the current educational system and his book the 12 Rules of Life.
|-
| August 6th 2018 || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shSwegn3VcQ Firing Line] || Margaret Hoover || (''25 mins'') Dr Peterson discussing meaning, responsibility, enforced speech, and identity politics.
|-
| June 28th 2018 || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6H2HmKDbZA Aspen Ideas Festival] || Bari Weiss || (''92 mins'') Journalist Weiss poses a wide range of challenging questions to Dr Peterson in front of an appreciative festival audience. [https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/podcast/episode-54/ (podcast)] [https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/transcripts/aspen/ (transcript)]
|-
| June 1st 2018 || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2S58rH0PAw Under the Skin (52)] || Russell Brand || ''(94 mins)'' This was their second conversation (the first was in LA a few months ago). Jordan thought this one was better. They met in London in mid May 2018, and Jordan wrote: "I was completely worn out by the end."
|-
| January 3rd 2018 || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAsR6DZTvS8 Mysticism, Spirit and the Shadow (part 1)] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szBKI9Eg0fE (part 2)] || David Fuller || The first ''(33 mins)'' and second ''(also 33 mins)'' part of Rebel Wisdom's exclusive interview with psychologist and professor Jordan Peterson - where he talks in depth about his understanding of mysticism, religion and the challenge of integrating the shadow.
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| November 28th 2016 || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04wyGK6k6HE Joe Rogan Experience (no.877)] || Joe Rogan || (''170 mins'') Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson discuss current affairs.
|}

=== Hostile interviews ===

{| class="wikitable"
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! Date !! Link !! Participants !! Content and keywords
|-
| October 30th 2018 || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZYQpge1W5s British GQ '30th Anniversary'] || Helen Lewis || (''102 mins'') Feminist ideologue Lewis is introduced by Dr Peterson to new perspectives on the patriarchy, #MeToo, the alt-right, gay parenting, fascist ideologies, his all-beef diet and more.
|-
| August 6th 2018 || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufopNY5PO1U BBC: 'Hard Talk'] || Stephen Sackur || (''24 mins'') Sackur presents a list of standard media talking points which are dealt with at expert level by Dr Peterson.
|-
| May 24th 2018 || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QRQjrsFnR4 'Intelligence Squared'] || Anne McElvoy || (''59 mins'') In another viral video, Dr Peterson advises McElroy to think about issues more deeply, whether it be gender, the patriarchy, or the slide towards tyranny.
|-
| January 17th 2018 || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54&t=24s 'Channel 4 interview'] || Cathy Newman || (''30 mins'') The interview that spawned the meme So What You're Saying Is, as Dr Peterson demonstrates the shallow and petty nature of Newman's brand of identity politics.
|}

Jordan's Philosophy

2020-03-29T21:26:45Z

Jochen weber: Changed and added some parts

This article attempts to provide a coarse (low resolution) summary of the overall philosophy proposed and promoted by Jordan B. Peterson. Throughout his career as researcher as well as clinical psychologist, Jordan has mostly written and spoken related to how individuals can appreciate their [[Personality|personality]] as an expression of [[Archetype|Archetypal patterns]], how these personality aspects provide signals to conscious experience, and that the ultimate utility of these is to allow individuals to seek and find [[Meaning|meaning]], whereas that meaning transcends each individual's life, and is what connects all humans to what in Christianity and other religions is called God.

=== The World as a Place of Meaning and Narrative ===
The world we perceive, we move in and interact with, and which we inhabit as individuals can be either seen as (primarily if not exclusively) material objects (matter, energy, and force relations) or as narrative elements that provide meaning. In the former case, meaning and purpose (of life) are difficult if not impossible to define and find, since by reducing everything we experience to the materialistic elements, we cannot explicitly localize the level of analysis where meaning "emerges". Thus, a purely materialistic worldview (extreme atheism, incompatible with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism Panpsychism]) and approach to life ultimately lends itself to [[Nihilism|nihilism]], if one is willing to follow the purely rational and scientific logic.

=== The individual as the central (heroic) character ===
One of the most emphatically made arguments by Jordan is that the Western (Judeo-Christian) tradition has been instrumental in developing a [[Value System|hierarchy of values]] in which the [[Individual|individual]] takes a position just under [[God]], who is at the top of the most generic hierarchy. This was achieved by considering the individual as having been created "in the image of God" (see Jordan's Biblical Lectures series).

Jordan has frequently refused to answer the common question of "Do you believe in God?" with a simple "Yes" or "No" response. And in several debates (reference: Jordan Peterson and Sam Harris), Jordan has made it clear that whether or not someone expressly declares a belief in God, that person must have some ultimate value they seek. In short, every living organism, humans included, is compelled to choose between alternatives that present itself (decision making). And as part of this choosing, a value hierarchy and orientation is necessary. And whatever is at the most positive pole in the conscious reflective experience (the ultimate value) of human beings has in Western religious tradition been identified as God (or God's will).

=== Responsibility for being truthful ===
Taken together with the seeing the world as a place of meaning and narrative, each individual has the option to experience themselves as the heroic subject of their own narrative. When each of us demonstrates the truthful application of our consciousness, that is by shining light of attention and awareness on our sense of meaning that emerges from our perception of the world and ourselves, and by accepting what we perceive, we can--similarly to God in the first book of Genesis and other creation myths--create order out of chaos, albeit on a much smaller scale of course.

This does not necessarily mean that our experience will always be joyful or positive, quite the opposite. Many times in life, we will go through hardship and painful moments. The critical value of accepting that life takes the form of a heroic narrative geared towards achieving a meaningful outcome, however, is that by finding meaning in existence, all of that pain and hardship can be endured without "losing one's mind." Thus, the conscious experience of being connected to a transcendental source of meaning, outside of own's one life, provides a protection again nihilism.

Over the past several hundred years, however, an additional movement has led to the replacement of God and similar transcendental sources of meaning by a more or less scientifically oriented concept of humanity, something Friedrich Nietzsche called the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Übermensch Übermensch]. And it seems that several precursors led to this development.

=== Scientific vs. Mythological causality ===
For thousands of years, humans sought to explain the causes of their perception and experiences in narrative form. As part of this explanatory model, a relatively small set of [[Archetype|archetypes]] and [[Personality|personalities]] emerged, which allowed humans to explain pretty much every phenomenon of import.

While some amount of physical causal reasoning was certainly already present during the times of the Greek philosophers (e.g. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes Archimedes]), none of this replaced the need of people for an ultimate explanation behind the physics. That is, the ultimate cause--and with it the ultimate reason and meaning of life--was not affected by our collective ability to discover and ascribe localized, materialistic causality.

This changed dramatically over the course of the past several hundred years, during which purely materialistic causal explanatory models emerged, of which the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang Big Bang theory] is a prominent example. In such a model, there is no room for purpose and meaning.

=== A Return to Meaning ===
Jordan's fundamental assumption, however, is that as living creatures, human perception and decision making is not concerned with the question of material (objectively measurable) reality, but with significance or meaning. In other words, the problem a human brain constantly solves is not best described with understanding and engaging with (objective) reality, but with questions like

* Does what I perceive have meaning?
* What is that meaning?
* How can my actions help me achieve my purpose in relation to that meaning?
* What kinds of actions generally serve my purpose (identity as a "good person", etc.)?

To this end, Jordan's latest book (12 Rules For Life) has been an attempt at re-focusing our consciousness on '''what matters''' rather than on (physical) matter.

Glossary

2020-03-28T15:08:31Z

Jochen weber: Added two terms

== Glossary of Terms used by Jordan B Peterson based on various resources available online ==

* [[Activism]]
* [[Addiction]]
* [[Aim/Goal]]
* [[Archetype]]
* [[Arrogance]]
* [[Attention]]
* [[Being]]
* [[Clean your room]]
* [[Competence Hierarchy/Dominance Hierarchy]]
* [[Conscientiousness]]
* [[Consciousness]]
* [[Culture]]
* [[Deceit]]
* [[Education]]
* [[Empathy]]
* [[Ethics]]
* [[Evil]]
* [[Evolution]]
* [[Father Archetype]]
* [[Free Speech]]
* [[God]]
* [[Hero Archetype]]
* [[How to Act (Action)]]
* [[Ideas]]
* [[Ideology]]
* [[Individual]]
* [[Logos]]
* [[Love]]
* [[Malevolence]]
* [[Meaning]]
* [[Memory]]
* [[Morality]]
* [[Mother Archetype]]
* [[Myth]]
* [[Nature]]
* [[Neo Marxism]]
* [[Nihilism]]
* [[Order & Chaos]]
* [[Orientation]]
* [[Personality]]
* [[Political Correctness]]
* [[Postmodern Neo-Marxism]]
* [[Redemption]]
* [[Relationships]]
* [[Religion & Divinity]]
* [[Resentment]]
* [[Responsibility]]
* [[Right vs Left]]
* [[Rights]]
* [[Rules]]
* [[Schedule]]
* [[Sin]]
* [[Sovereignty of an Individual]]
* [[Stress]]
* [[Suffering]]
* [[Technology]]
* [[Tragedy]]
* [[Truth]]
* [[Tyranny]]
* [[Value System]]
* [[Western Canon]]
* [[Western Civilization]]

Jordan's Philosophy

2020-03-28T15:08:08Z

Jochen weber: Replaced some links

This article attempts to provide a coarse (low resolution) summary of the overall philosophy proposed and promoted by Jordan B. Peterson. Throughout his career as researcher as well as clinical psychologist, Jordan has mostly written and spoken related to how individuals can appreciate their [[Personality|personality]] as an expression of [[Archetype|Archetypal patterns]], how these personality aspects provide signals to conscious experience, and that the ultimate utility of these is to allow individuals to seek and find [[Meaning|meaning]].

=== The World as a Place of Meaning ===
The world we perceive, we move in and interact with, and which we inhabit as individuals can be either seen as (primarily if not exclusively) material objects (matter, energy, and force relations) or as narrative elements that provide meaning. In the former case, meaning and purpose (of life) are difficult if not impossible to define and find, since by reducing everything we experience to the materialistic elements, we cannot explicitly localize the level of analysis where meaning "emerges". Thus, a purely materialistic worldview (extreme atheism, incompatible with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism Panpsychism]) ultimately yields itself to [[Nihilism|nihilism]], if one is willing to follow the purely rational and scientific logic.

One of the most emphatically made arguments by Jordan is that the Western (Judeo-Christian) tradition has been instrumental in developing a [[Value System|hierarchy of values]] in which the [[Individual|individual]] takes a position just under [[God]], who is at the top of the most generic hierarchy. This was achieved by considering the individual as having been created "in the image of God" (see Jordan's Biblical Lectures series).

Jordan has frequently refused to answer the common question of "Do you believe in God?" with a simple "Yes" or "No" response. And in several debates (reference: Jordan Peterson and Sam Harris), Jordan has made it clear that whether someone expressly declares a belief in God, that person must have some ultimate value they seek. In short, every living organism, humans included, is compelled to choose between alternatives that present itself (decision making). And as part of this choosing, a value hierarchy and orientation is necessary. And whatever is at the most positive pole in the conscious reflective experience (the ultimate value) of human beings has in Western religious tradition been identified as God (or God's will).

Over the past several hundred years, however, an additional movement has led to the replacement of God by what Friedrich Nietzsche called the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Übermensch Übermensch]. And it seems that several precursors led to this development.

==== Scientific vs. Mythological causality ====
For thousands of years, humans sought to explain the causes of their perception and experiences in narrative form. As part of this explanatory model, a relatively small set of [[Archetype|archetypes]] and [[Personality|personalities]] emerged, which allowed humans to explain pretty much every phenomenon of import.

While some amount of physical causal reasoning was certainly already present during the times of the Greek philosophers (e.g. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes Archimedes]), none of this replaced the need of people for an ultimate explanation behind the physics. That is, the ultimate cause and with it the ultimate reason and meaning of life was not affected by our collective ability to discover and ascribe localized, materialistic causality.

This changed dramatically over the course of the past several hundred years, during which purely materialistic causal explanatory models emerged, of which the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang Big Bang theory] is a prominent example. In such a model, there is no room for purpose and meaning.

==== A Return to Meaning ====
Jordan's fundamental assumption, however, is that as living creatures, human perception and decision making is not concerned with the question of material (objectively measurable) reality, but with significance or meaning. In other words, the problem a human brain constantly solves is not best described with understanding and engaging with (objective) reality, but with questions like

* Does what I perceive have meaning?
* What is that meaning?
* How can my actions help me achieve my purpose in relation to that meaning?
* What kinds of actions generally serve my purpose (identity as a "good person", etc.)?

Interviews

2020-03-26T17:03:36Z

Jochen weber: Replaced minutes with mins

Interviews

2020-03-26T17:02:54Z

Jochen weber: Added two interviews

User:Jochen weber

2020-03-26T16:49:57Z

Jochen weber: Created page with "== Some info... == I'm originally from Germany, and now live in New York City, and work as a Senior Data Analyst for [https://www.mskcc.org Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Cen..."

== Some info... ==
I'm originally from Germany, and now live in New York City, and work as a Senior Data Analyst for [https://www.mskcc.org Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center] (in the dermatology services).

My interest in [https://www.jordanbpeterson.com Jordan Peterson] started about two years ago, when I watched and listened to a series of videos (mainly [[Interviews|interviews]] and [[Discussions|discussions]]). I believe that his [[Jordan's Philosophy|philosophy]] hits the nail (for me) really on the head. And together with another "approach" I learned about a few years back, Nonviolent Communication (which made me aware of a lot of my internal mental life), I've found that even hard times in life give me [[Meaning|meaning]], something I now appreciate a lot.

Housekeeping

2020-03-26T16:17:05Z

Jochen weber: Initial page.

This page is mainly for the editors of the wiki, but also serves as a public record of some notes.

== Guidelines and manuals ==
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Main Page

2020-03-26T15:23:30Z

Jochen weber: Minimal rewording of the "fans" sentences

'''Welcome to the JBP Wiki page!'''

If you are someone who wants to better understand yourself and learn more effective ways of confronting your [[Individual|individual]] [[Challenge|challenges]], you are in the right place.

Our [[Glossary|glossary]] is a tool to help you easily track down specific definitions of certain ideas and concepts shared by Canadian psychologist, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson.

Many people, from around the world, have found the content Dr. Peterson discusses in his [[Book reviews|books]], [[Lectures|lectures]], [[Videos|videos]], [[Podcasts|podcasts]], and [[Interviews|interviews]] helpful; specifically, they say it's helped them learn to better navigate the challenges and [[Complexity|complexity]] of their lives.

Dr. Peterson says his work is about exploring the relationship between [[Responsibility|responsibility]] and [[Meaning|meaning]]. And while he speaks through the lens and perspective of a psychologist, his ideas draw from human [[Wisdom|wisdom]] across the ages. He synthesizes human understanding, knowledge, and [[Narrative|narratives]] from across the disciplines of philosophy, [[Religion|religion]], science, and [[Myth|myth]].

We think there is value in understanding [[Jordan's Philosophy|Dr. Jordan Peterson's philosophy]], which is mainly centered around an individual's [[Transformation|transformation]] of [[Personality|personality]], based on their seeing the world as a place of meaning and knowing [[How to act properly|how to act properly]] in it.

This wiki site has been compiled by a loose association of people from various walks of life and varied disciplines, but all happen to believe enthusiastically in the value of Jordan Peterson's content, and in bringing this value to people outside of our community, mostly because they enjoy it and have found it useful in their own lives.

Whether you are a novice or an expert, when it comes to understanding these ideas and concepts, we think it's helpful to have verbatim definitions straight from the horse's mouth. That is, these are exact quotes from Dr. Jordan Peterson, taken directly from his extensive body of work, with specific citations to the sources from which they were drawn (wherever possible).

In the last few years as Dr. Peterson's fame (and notoriety) has grown, lots of people have interpreted (and misinterpreted) his ideas and perspectives, often in the service of bolstering their own ideological agendas and arguments, which has sometimes resulted in confusing or contorted portrayals of his positions.

The aim of this site is to cut through that clutter, by offering this tool, a [[Glossary|glossary]], so you can contend with Dr. Peterson's ideas directly and accurately, in his own words. From there, you can draw your own conclusions.

''Please note:'' While we have done our best to be factually correct with quotes and sources, naturally there's always a chance we made a mistake. If you have any concerns, please email us at wiki (at) jbpdaily (dot) org. And in case you find any information helpful enough to re-use it in a different place, please include the source.

Main Page

2020-03-26T15:21:29Z

Jochen weber: Pasted the intro by Erin

'''Welcome to the JBP Wiki page!'''

If you are someone who wants to better understand yourself and learn more effective ways of confronting your [[Individual|individual]] [[Challenge|challenges]], you are in the right place.

Our [[Glossary|glossary]] is a tool to help you easily track down specific definitions of certain ideas and concepts shared by Canadian psychologist, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson.

Many people, from around the world, have found the content Dr. Peterson discusses in his [[Book reviews|books]], [[Lectures|lectures]], [[Videos|videos]], [[Podcasts|podcasts]], and [[Interviews|interviews]] helpful; specifically, they say it's helped them learn to better navigate the challenges and [[Complexity|complexity]] of their lives.

Dr. Peterson says his work is about exploring the relationship between [[Responsibility|responsibility]] and [[Meaning|meaning]]. And while he speaks through the lens and perspective of a psychologist, his ideas draw from human [[Wisdom|wisdom]] across the ages. He synthesizes human understanding, knowledge, and [[Narrative|narratives]] from across the disciplines of philosophy, [[Religion|religion]], science, and [[Myth|myth]].

We think there is value in understanding [[Jordan's Philosophy|Dr. Jordan Peterson's philosophy]], which is mainly centered around an individual's [[Transformation|transformation]] of [[Personality|personality]], based on their seeing the world as a place of meaning and knowing [[How to act properly|how to act properly]] in it.

This wiki site has been compiled by a loose association of people from various walks of life and varied disciplines, but all happen to be enthusiastic fans of Jordan Peterson's content, mostly because they enjoy it and have found it useful in their own lives.

Whether you are a novice or an expert, when it comes to understanding these ideas and concepts, we think it's helpful to have verbatim definitions straight from the horse's mouth. That is, these are exact quotes from Dr. Jordan Peterson, taken directly from his extensive body of work, with specific citations to the sources from which they were drawn (wherever possible).

In the last few years as Dr. Peterson's fame (and notoriety) has grown, lots of people have interpreted (and misinterpreted) his ideas and perspectives, often in the service of bolstering their own ideological agendas and arguments, which has sometimes resulted in confusing or contorted portrayals of his positions.

The aim of this site is to cut through that clutter, by offering this tool, a [[Glossary|glossary]], so you can contend with Dr. Peterson's ideas directly and accurately, in his own words. From there, you can draw your own conclusions.

''Please note:'' While we have done our best to be factually correct with quotes and sources, naturally there's always a chance we made a mistake. If you have any concerns, please email us at wiki (at) jbpdaily (dot) org. And in case you find any information helpful enough to re-use it in a different place, please include the source.

Nihilism

2020-03-25T21:09:33Z

Jochen weber: First attempt

==== Definition ====
Nihilism can be defined as the belief that life doesn't have purpose or meaning, as well as having this as one's general experience. It is part of healthy human life to ask oneself about the (ultimate) purpose of making decisions. This starts on the most proximal level, say between eating relatively more vs. less healthy foods, and extends all the way to whether or not to risk one's status or life where assertive action could save lives (e.g. pulling someone from a train track with an approaching train).

For each decision, the question can be asked, "why is this option better than the other?" And with each proximal answer, the next question comes along. In the case of food, one could argue that certain foods lead to more health in the long term. But why is that "better"? Isn't it better to eat the most tasty food and just accept the consequences? And no matter where one starts, eventually one arrives at the question of "what is the value of my existence?"

Nihilism provides a non-answer: it doesn't matter to ask the question, and everything is "meaningless".

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==== Applications ====
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==== Interpretations ====
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Why bother to solve one problem when there are 20 more coming down the pike? Why not just give up and die? Is suffering so great that everything is meaningless?
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==== See Also ====
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==== References ====
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Jordan's Philosophy

2020-03-25T18:39:23Z

Jochen weber: grammar

This article attempts to provide a coarse (low resolution) summary of the overall philosophy proposed and promoted by Jordan B. Peterson. Throughout his career as researcher as well as clinical psychologist, Jordan has mostly written and spoken related to how individuals can appreciate their [[Personality]] as an expression of [[Archetype|Archetypal patterns]], how these personality aspects provide signals to conscious experience, and that the ultimate utility of these is to allow individuals to seek and find [[Meaning]].

=== The World as a Place of Meaning ===
The world we perceive, we move in and interact with, and which we inhabit as individuals can be either seen as (primarily if not exclusively) material objects (matter, energy, and force relations) or as narrative elements that provide meaning. In the former case, meaning and purpose (of life) are difficult if not impossible to define and find, since by reducing everything we experience to the materialistic elements, we cannot explicitly localize the level of analysis where meaning "emerges". Thus, a purely materialistic worldview (extreme atheism, incompatible with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism Panpsychism]) ultimately yields itself to [[Nihilism|nihilism]], if one is willing to follow the purely rational and scientific logic.

One of the most emphatically made arguments by Jordan is that the Western (Judeo-Christian) tradition has been instrumental in developing a [[Hierarchy of Values]] in which the [[individual]] takes a position just under [[God]], who is at the top of the most generic hierarchy. This was achieved by considering the individual as having been created "in the image of God" (see Jordan's Biblical Lectures series).

Jordan has frequently refused to answer the common question of "Do you believe in God?" with a simple "Yes" or "No" response. And in several debates (reference: Jordan Peterson and Sam Harris), Jordan has made it clear that whether someone expressly declares a belief in God, that person must have some ultimate value they seek. In short, every living organism, humans included, is compelled to choose between alternatives that present itself (decision making). And as part of this choosing, a value hierarchy and orientation is necessary. And whatever is at the most positive pole in the conscious reflective experience (the ultimate value) of human beings has in Western religious tradition been identified as God (or God's will).

Over the past several hundred years, however, an additional movement has led to the replacement of God by what Friedrich Nietzsche called the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Übermensch Übermensch]. And it seems that several precursors led to this development.

==== Scientific vs. Mythological causality ====
For thousands of years, humans sought to explain the causes of their perception and experiences in narrative form. As part of this explanatory model, a relatively small set of [[Archetype|archetypes]] and [[Personality|personalities]] emerged, which allowed humans to explain pretty much every phenomenon of import.

While some amount of physical causal reasoning was certainly already present during the times of the Greek philosophers (e.g. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes Archimedes]), none of this replaced the need of people for an ultimate explanation behind the physics. That is, the ultimate cause and with it the ultimate reason and meaning of life was not affected by our collective ability to discover and ascribe localized, materialistic causality.

This changed dramatically over the course of the past several hundred years, during which purely materialistic causal explanatory models emerged, of which the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang Big Bang theory] is a prominent example. In such a model, there is no room for purpose and meaning.

==== A Return to Meaning ====
Jordan's fundamental assumption, however, is that as living creatures, human perception and decision making is not concerned with the question of material (objectively measurable) reality, but with significance or meaning. In other words, the problem a human brain constantly solves is not best described with understanding and engaging with (objective) reality, but with questions like

* Does what I perceive have meaning?
* What is that meaning?
* How can my actions help me achieve my purpose in relation to that meaning?
* What kinds of actions generally serve my purpose (identity as a "good person", etc.)?

Jordan's Philosophy

2020-03-25T18:38:52Z

Jochen weber: typo

This article attempts to provide a coarse (low resolution) summary of the overall philosophy proposed and promoted by Jordan B. Peterson. Throughout his career as researcher as well as clinical psychologist, Jordan has mostly written and spoken related to how individuals can appreciate their [[Personality]] as an expression of [[Archetype|Archetypal patterns]], how these personality aspects provide signals to conscious experience, and that the ultimate utility of these is to allow individuals to seek and find [[Meaning]].

=== The World as a Place of Meaning ===
The world we perceive, we move in and interact with, and which we inhabit as individuals can be either seen as (primarily if not exclusively) material objects (matter, energy, and force relations) or as narrative elements that provide meaning. In the former case, meaning and purpose (of life) are difficult if not impossible to define and find, since by reducing everything we experience to the materialistic elements, we cannot explicitly localize the level of analysis where meaning "emerges". Thus, a purely materialistic worldview (extreme atheism, incompatible with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism Panpsychism]) ultimately yields itself to [[Nihilism|nihilism]], if one is willing to follow the purely rational and scientific logic.

One of the most emphatically made arguments by Jordan is that the Western (Judeo-Christian) tradition has been instrumental in developing a [[Hierarchy of Values]] in which the [[individual]] takes a position just under [[God]], who is at the top of the most generic hierarchy. This was achieved by considering the individual as having been created "in the image of God" (see Jordan's Biblical Lectures series).

Jordan has frequently refused to answer the common question of "Do you believe in God?" with a simple "Yes" or "No" response. And in several debates (reference: Jordan Peterson and Sam Harris), Jordan has made it clear that whether someone expressly declares a belief in God, that person must have some ultimate value they seek. In short, every living organism, humans included, is compelled to choose between alternatives that present itself (decision making). And as part of this choosing, a value hierarchy and orientation is necessary. And whatever is at the most positive pole in the conscious reflective experience (the ultimate value) of human beings has in Western religious tradition been identified as God (or God's will).

Over the past several hundred years, however, an additional movement has led to the replacement of God by what Friedrich Nietzsche called the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Übermensch Übermensch]. And it seems that several precursors led to this development.

==== Scientific vs. Mythological causality ====
For thousands of years, humans sought to explain the causes of their perception and experiences in narrative form. As part of this explanatory model, a relatively small set of [[Archetype|archetypes]] and [[Personality|personalities]] emerged, which allowed humans to explain pretty much every phenomenon of import.

While some amount of physical causal reasoning was certainly already present during the times of the Greek philosophers (e.g. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes Archimedes]), none of this replaced the need of people for an ultimate explanation behind the physics. That is, the ultimate cause and with it the ultimate reason and meaning of life was not affected by our collective ability to discover and ascribe localized, materialistic causality.

This changed dramatically over the course of the past several hundred years, during which purely materialistic causal explanatory models has emerged, of which the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang Big Bang theory] is a prominent example. In such a model, there is no room for purpose and meaning.

==== A Return to Meaning ====
Jordan's fundamental assumption, however, is that as living creatures, human perception and decision making is not concerned with the question of material (objectively measurable) reality, but with significance or meaning. In other words, the problem a human brain constantly solves is not best described with understanding and engaging with (objective) reality, but with questions like

* Does what I perceive have meaning?
* What is that meaning?
* How can my actions help me achieve my purpose in relation to that meaning?
* What kinds of actions generally serve my purpose (identity as a "good person", etc.)?

Jordan's Philosophy

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This article attempts to provide a coarse (low resolution) summary of the overall philosophy proposed and promoted by Jordan B. Peterson. Throughout his career as researcher as well as clinical psychologist, Jordan has mostly written and spoken related to how individuals can appreciate their [[Personality]] as an expression of [[Archetype|Archetypal patterns]], how these personality aspects provide signals to conscious experience, and that the ultimate utility of these is to allow individuals to seek and find [[Meaning]].

=== The World as a Place of Meaning ===
The world we perceive, we move in and interact with, and which we inhabit as individuals can be either seen as (primarily if not exclusively) material objects (matter, energy, and force relations) or as narrative elements that provide meaning. In the former case, meaning and purpose (of life) are difficult if not impossible to define and find, since by reducing everything we experience to the materialistic elements, we cannot explicitly localize the level of analysis where meaning "emerges". Thus, a purely materialistic worldview (extreme atheism, incompatible with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism Panpsychism]) ultimately yields itself to [[Nihilism|nihilism]], if one is willing to follow the purely rational and scientific logic.

One of the most emphatically made arguments by Jordan is that the Western (Judeo-Christian) tradition has been instrumental in developing a [[Hierarchy of Values]] in which the [[individual]] takes a position just under [[God]], who is at the top of the most generic hierarchy. This was achieved by considering the individual as having been created "in the image of God" (see Jordan's Biblical Lectures series).

Jordan has frequently refused to answer the common question of "Do you believe in God?" with a simple "Yes" or "No" response. And in several debates (reference: Jordan Peterson and Sam Harris), Jordan has made it clear that whether someone expressly declares a belief in God, that person must have some ultimate value they seek. In short, every living organism, humans included, is compelled to choose between alternatives that present itself (decision making). And as part of this choosing, a value hierarchy and orientation is necessary. And whatever is at the most positive pole in the conscious reflective experience (the ultimate value) of human beings has in Western religious tradition been identified as God (or God's will).

Over the past several hundred years, however, an additional movement has led to the replacement of God by what Friedrich Nietzsche called the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Übermensch Übermensch]. And it seems that several precursors led to this development.

==== Scientific vs. Mythological causality ====
For thousands of years, humans sought to explain the causes of their perception and experiences in narrative form. As part of this explanatory model, a relatively small set of [[Archetype|archetypes]] and [[Personality|personalities]] emerged, which allowed humans to explain pretty much every phenomenon of import.

While some amount of physical causal reasoning was certainly already present during the times of the Greek philosophers (e.g. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes Archimedes]), none of this replaced the need of people for an ultimate explanation behind the physics. That is, the ultimate cause and with in the ultimate reason and meaning of life was not affected by our collective ability to discover and ascribe localized, materialistic causality.

This changed dramatically over the course of the past several hundred years, during which purely materialistic causal explanatory models has emerged, of which the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang Big Bang theory] is a prominent example. In such a model, there is no room for purpose and meaning.

==== A Return to Meaning ====
Jordan's fundamental assumption, however, is that as living creatures, human perception and decision making is not concerned with the question of material (objectively measurable) reality, but with significance or meaning. In other words, the problem a human brain constantly solves is not best described with understanding and engaging with (objective) reality, but with questions like

* Does what I perceive have meaning?
* What is that meaning?
* How can my actions help me achieve my purpose in relation to that meaning?
* What kinds of actions generally serve my purpose (identity as a "good person", etc.)?

Jordan's Philosophy

2020-03-25T18:35:42Z

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This article attempts to provide a coarse (low resolution) summary of the overall philosophy proposed and promoted by Jordan B. Peterson. Throughout his career as researcher as well as clinical psychologist, Jordan has mostly written and spoken related to how individuals can appreciate their [[Personality]] as an expression of [[Archetype|Archetypal patterns]], how these personality aspects provide signals to conscious experience, and that the ultimate utility of these is to allow individuals to seek and find [[Meaning]].

=== The World as a Place of Meaning ===
The world we perceive, we move in and interact with, and which we inhabit as individuals can be either seen as (primarily if not exclusively) material objects (matter, energy, and force relations) or as narrative elements that provide meaning. In the former case, meaning and purpose (of life) are difficult if not impossible to define and find, since by reducing everything we experience to the materialistic elements, we cannot explicitly localize the level of analysis where meaning "emerges". Thus, a purely materialistic worldview (extreme atheism, incompatible with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panpsychism Panpsychism]) ultimately yields itself to [[Nihilism|nihilism], if one is willing to follow the purely rational and scientific logic.

One of the most emphatically made arguments by Jordan is that the Western (Judeo-Christian) tradition has been instrumental in developing a [[Hierarchy of Values]] in which the [[individual]] takes a position just under [[God]], who is at the top of the most generic hierarchy. This was achieved by considering the individual as having been created "in the image of God" (see Jordan's Biblical Lectures series).

Jordan has frequently refused to answer the common question of "Do you believe in God?" with a simple "Yes" or "No" response. And in several debates (reference: Jordan Peterson and Sam Harris), Jordan has made it clear that whether someone expressly declares a belief in God, that person must have some ultimate value they seek. In short, every living organism, humans included, is compelled to choose between alternatives that present itself (decision making). And as part of this choosing, a value hierarchy and orientation is necessary. And whatever is at the most positive pole in the conscious reflective experience (the ultimate value) of human beings has in Western religious tradition been identified as God (or God's will).

Over the past several hundred years, however, an additional movement has led to the replacement of God by what Friedrich Nietzsche called the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Übermensch Übermensch]. And it seems that several precursors led to this development.

==== Scientific vs. Mythological causality ====
For thousands of years, humans sought to explain the causes of their perception and experiences in narrative form. As part of this explanatory model, a relatively small set of [[Archetype|archetypes]] and [[Personality|personalities]] emerged, which allowed humans to explain pretty much every phenomenon of import.

While some amount of physical causal reasoning was certainly already present during the times of the Greek philosophers (e.g. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes Archimedes]), none of this replaced the need of people for an ultimate explanation behind the physics. That is, the ultimate cause and with in the ultimate reason and meaning of life was not affected by our collective ability to discover and ascribe localized, materialistic causality.

This changed dramatically over the course of the past several hundred years, during which purely materialistic causal explanatory models has emerged, of which the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang Big Bang theory] is a prominent example. In such a model, there is no room for purpose and meaning.

==== A Return to Meaning ====
Jordan's fundamental assumption, however, is that as living creatures, human perception and decision making is not concerned with the question of material (objectively measurable) reality, but with significance or meaning. In other words, the problem a human brain constantly solves is not best described with understanding and engaging with (objective) reality, but with questions like

* Does what I perceive have meaning?
* What is that meaning?
* How can my actions help me achieve my purpose in relation to that meaning?
* What kinds of actions generally serve my purpose (identity as a "good person", etc.)?

Main Page

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Welcome to the JBP Daily wiki. The information contained in this collection of pages was put together by the members of the JBP Daily community, and editing rights are limited to that group of people.

While we have done our best to be factually correct with quotes and sources, naturally there's always a chance me made a mistake. If you have any concerns, please email us at wiki (at) jbpdaily (dot) org. And in case you find any information helpful enough to re-use it in a different place, please include the source.

== Glossary of Terms ==
Jordan frequently uses words that have, over the years, acquired very precise meanings (what the word stands for). While it may be difficult to capture each word’s meaning with as much precision as Jordan would put it, our community members have done their best to collect a definition, applications, interpretations, and references for several terms, and we put them into a [[Glossary|Glossary of Terms]].

== Curated lists of content ==
The pages linked below contain references to external sites together with brief descriptions of content and keywords to make topics more discoverable.

* [[Book Reviews]]
* [[Glossary|Glossary of Terms]]
* [[Interviews]]
* [[Lectures]]
* [[Media Coverage]]
* [[Podcasts]]

== Jordan's Philosophy ==
If you are curious as to what we believe lies at the core of his work, please check out [[Jordan's Philosophy]] page.

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== Glossary of Terms used by Jordan B Peterson based on various resources available online ==

* [[Activism]]
* [[Addiction]]
* [[Aim/Goal]]
* [[Attention]]
* [[Being]]
* [[Clean your room]]
* [[Competence Hierarchy/Dominance Hierarchy]]
* [[Culture]]
* [[Divinity]]
* [[Education]]
* [[Ethics]]
* [[Evil]]
* [[Evolution]]
* [[Father Archetype]]
* [[Freedom]]
* [[God]]
* [[Hero Archetype]]
* [[How to Act (Action)]]
* [[Ideas]]
* [[Ideology]]
* [[Logos]]
* [[Love]]
* [[Malevolence]]
* [[Meaning]]
* [[Morality]]
* [[Mother Archetype]]
* [[Myth]]
* [[Nature]]
* [[Neo Marxism]]
* [[Nihilism]]
* [[Order & Chaos]]
* [[Orientation]]
* [[Personality]]
* [[Political Correctness]]
* [[Postmodern Neo-Marxism]]
* [[Redemption]]
* [[Relationships]]
* [[Religion]]
* [[Responsibility]]
* [[Rights]]
* [[Right vs Left]]
* [[Rules]]
* [[Schedule]]
* [[Sin]]
* [[Sovereignty of an Individual]]
* [[Stress]]
* [[Suffering]]
* [[Tragedy]]
* [[Truth]]
* [[Tyranny]]
* [[Value System]]
* [[Western Canon]]
* [[Western Civilization]]

JBP Daily wiki:About

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This wiki is about the work of [https://www.jordanbpeterson.com Prof. Jordan B. Peterson]. It is curated by the members of the [https://www.jbpdaily.org JBP Daily] community.

=== Copyright notices ===
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Interviews

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Main Page

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Welcome to the JBP Daily wiki. The information contained in this collection of pages was put together by the members of the JBP Daily community, and editing rights are limited to that group of people.

While we have done our best to be factually correct with quotes and sources, naturally there's always a chance me made a mistake. If you have any concerns, please email us at wiki (at) jbpdaily (dot) org. And in case you find any information helpful enough to re-use it in a different place, please include the source.

== Curated lists of content ==
The pages linked below contain references to external sites together with brief descriptions of content and keywords to make topics more discoverable.

* [[Book Reviews]]
* [[Interviews]]
* [[Lectures]]
* [[Media Coverage]]
* [[Podcasts]]

<hr>

== Glossary of Terms used by Jordan B Peterson based on various resources available online ==

* [[Activism]]
* [[Addiction]]
* [[Aim/Goal]]
* [[Attention]]
* [[Being]]
* [[Clean your room]]
* [[Competence Hierarchy/Dominance Hierarchy]]
* [[Culture]]
* [[Divinity]]
* [[Education]]
* [[Ethics]]
* [[Evil]]
* [[Evolution]]
* [[Father Archetype]]
* [[Freedom]]
* [[God]]
* [[Hero Archetype]]
* [[How to Act (Action)]]
* [[Ideas]]
* [[Ideology]]
* [[Logos]]
* [[Love]]
* [[Malevolence]]
* [[Meaning]]
* [[Morality]]
* [[Mother Archetype]]
* [[Myth]]
* [[Nature]]
* [[Neo Marxism]]
* [[Nihilism]]
* [[Order & Chaos]]
* [[Orientation]]
* [[Personality]]
* [[Political Correctness]]
* [[Postmodern Neo-Marxism]]
* [[Redemption]]
* [[Relationships]]
* [[Religion]]
* [[Responsibility]]
* [[Rights]]
* [[Right vs Left]]
* [[Rules]]
* [[Schedule]]
* [[Sin]]
* [[Sovereignty of an Individual]]
* [[Stress]]
* [[Suffering]]
* [[Tragedy]]
* [[Truth]]
* [[Tyranny]]
* [[Value System]]
* [[Western Canon]]
* [[Western Civilization]]