Professor Jordan Peterson discusses the nature of evil, distinguishing it from tragedy, and presenting his ideas on how both the former and the latter might be most effectively dealt with.

Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLp7vWB0TeY

02 - Tragedy Vs Evil

Part 1: Maps of Meaning: 1 Monsters of Our Own Making.

This is the first of a 13-part 30 minute episode television series broadcast by TVO presenting Dr. Jordan B Peterson's lectures on his book, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief. The lecture provides a good introduction to the psychology of mythology and religion, based on the idea that stories from these domains describe the world as a place of action, rather than, as science does, a place of things.

Part 2: Maps of Meaning: 2 Contending with Chaos

Part 3: Maps of Meaning: 3 Becoming Like Gods

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knEZN9U-9xc&list=PL22J3VaeABQC6oShltYc6rMUDAGJ7_G5e&index=1

09 - Maps Of Meaning TVO 1 - 3

Part 1: Maps of Meaning: 4 Games People Must Play 0:32
Part 2: Maps of Meaning: 5 Grappling with Fear 27:59
Part 3: Maps of Meaning: 6 Submitting to Order 55:23

10 - Maps Of Meaning TVO 4 - 6

Dr. James W. Pennebaker is Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, and the Executive Director of Project 2021, aimed at rethinking undergrad education at that university.

I first encountered Dr. Pennebaker's work when I was working on the SelfAuthoring Suite (www.selfauthoring.com), an online writing program which has helped thousands of college students stay in school and get better grades. He conducted the original work on "expressive writing," starting in the 1980's, showing that people's health and productivity improved when they wrote about traumatic experiences or uncertainty -- particularly if they constructed causal accounts or plans. He has also investigated the psychological significance of patterns of word use (particularly about everyone's favorites, pronouns). We talk about all of this, and much more.

Dr. Pennebaker's books include:

"Opening Up by Writing it Down" http://amzn.to/2mQX09L

"Expressive Writing: Words that Heal" http://amzn.to/2m6eIWP

The Secret Life of Pronouns" http://amzn.to/2lqfRvu

You can find out more about The Self Authoring Suite, which helps people write about the difficulties and uncertainties of the past (Past Authoring), present (Present Authoring) and Future (Future Authoring) at www.selfauthoring.com. NPR did a popular story on the suite: The Writing Assignment that Changes Lives

You can find out more about Dr. Pennebaker's research, learn more about psychology, and improve your knowledge of yourself at these websites:

JW Pennebaker at U Texas Austin: http://bit.ly/2mQW4lY

JWP's computer program for word analysis: http://www.liwc.net/

JWP's exercises for self-understanding: http://bit.ly/2mDUZ49

JWP's Language of Truth and Lies and other videos: http://bit.ly/2mE25pl

11 - James W Pennebaker

1. Maps of Meaning 7 Contemplating Genesis – Starting at 0:32
2. Maps of Meaning 8 Dwelling on Paradise – Starting at 27:57
3. Maps of Meaning 9 Becoming A Self – Starting at 55:22

YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EWelXuo2JM&t=1s

12 - Maps Of Meaning TVO 7 - 9

Part 1: Maps of Meaning 10 Figuring Evil – Starting at 0:32
Part 2: Maps of Meaning 11 Losing Religion – Starting at 27:57
Part 3: Maps of Meaning 12 Truths that Matter – Starting at 55:22
Part 4: Maps of Meaning 13 The Force Within – Starting at 1:22:45

13 - Maps Of Meaning TVO 10 - 13

Part 1: A Message to Millenials: How to Change the World -- Properly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbOeO_frzvg&t

Young people want, rightly, to change the world. But how might this be properly done? Dr Jonathan Haidt recently contrasted Truth University with Social Justice University. Social Justice U has as its advantage the call to social transformation. In this podcast, I outline why Truth is the proper route to societal improvement -- and why that starts with the individual.

Part 2: A New Years Message to the World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnEFt20qe0o&t

A message for those who are looking forward to 2017. Thank you to all of those who have supported my efforts in the recent (and not so recent past).

Links

Here is the text of the letter, on my blog:
http://jordanbpeterson.com/2016/12/new-years-letter/
Link to Jonathan Haidt’s article on Truth U vs Social Justice U: http://heterodoxacademy.org/2016/10/21/one-telos-truth-or-social-justice/
Link to paper on Future Authoring: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/articles/palcomms201514
Self Authoring Programs: https://www.selfauthoring.com/
Dr Peterson's Patreon Support Page: https://www.patreon.com/jordanbpeterson
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Reading List: http://jordanbpeterson.com/2017/03/great-books/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson

15 - How To Change The World

Lecture 1 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories series from May 16th at Isabel Bader Theatre in Toronto. In this lecture, I describe what I consider to be the idea of God, which is at least partly the notion of sovereignty and power, divorced from any concrete sovereign or particular, individual person of power. I also suggest that God, as Father, is something akin to the spirit or pattern inherent in the human hierarchy of authority, which is based in turn on the dominance hierarchies characterizing animals.

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18 - Introduction To The Idea Of God

Two-part interview with Transliminal Media's Jordan Levine, April 2017, in Vancouver, Canada. 

Sequel to the hit 2015 interview 'Religion, Myth, Science, Truth': https://youtu.be/07Ys4tQPRis

Please support Transliminal Media on Patreon** | https://www.patreon.com/transliminal

Links

Transliminal Media YouTube Channel: https://www.patreon.com/transliminal
Self Authoring Programs: http://www.selfauthoring.com
Dr Peterson's Patreon Support Page: http://www.patreon.com/user?u=3019121

20 - Ideology, Logos, And Belief

Lecture 6 in my Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories lecture series
The story of Noah and the Ark is next in the Genesis sequence. This is a more elaborated tale than the initial creation account, or the story of Adam and Eve or Cain and Abel. However, it cannot be understood in its true depth without some investigation into what the motif of the flood means, psychologically, and an analysis of how that motif is informed by the order/chaos dichotomy, as well as by the idea of an involuntary voyage to the underworld or confrontation with the dragon. In consequence, this lecture concentrates almost exclusively on psychology: How is an encounter with the unknown to be understood, conceptually? How and why is that represented with themes such as the underworld voyage, the dragon fight, or the flood?
All that constitutes the theme of lecture VI.

24 - The Psychology Of The Flood

A conversation between Dr. Jordan Peterson and Sir Roger Scruton, moderated by Dr. Stephen Blackwood, introduced by Professor Douglas Hedley, presented by The Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism and Ralston College, held on Nov 2, 2018 in Cambridge, England. God willing (so to speak) I will be staying in Cambridge in October and November talking with the faculty at the Divinity School there about the book of Exodus prior to releasing a new series of videos about that biblical saga.

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Dr. Stephen Blackwood and Ralston College: https://www.ralston.ac/

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63 - Sir Roger Scruton

Professor of Psychology at UofT, Lecturer, YouTube Personality, Author of Maps of Meaning & 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

09 - Maps Of Meaning TVO 1 - 3

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