Jordan B. Peterson’s We Who Wrestle with God: Perceptions of the Divine delves into biblical stories from Genesis, Exodus, and Jonah, offering a psychological and philosophical interpretation of their significance.
Jordan B. Peterson's Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life builds on his first book with twelve new rules to help people face chaos and find balance.
Jordan B. Peterson's 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos gives clear advice on how to live better. He draws from psychology, old stories, religion, and his own life.
Peterson reflects on the core problem he addressed in the class: why people cling to belief systems and even fight over them.
Peterson explores belief systems. They help people assign value and act in the world. Belief systems regulate emotions. They allow cooperation and competition without constant conflict.
Peterson examines why people defend belief systems fiercely. These systems guide action and value. They help people cooperate without conflict.
Peterson discusses archetypes as universal patterns. They appear in myths, stories, and images. These patterns are deep. They come from human experience across time.
Peterson explores what makes things most real. Real things last long across time. They appear in many situations. He rejects the idea that humans evolved only on the African veldt. Patterns from all evolutionary history shape people.
Peterson explores how basic categories frame the world. These categories appear first in images. They exist long before names or words.
Peterson discusses the human struggle with complexity. Individual consciousness is limited. The world around and inside people is vast and hard to grasp.
Peterson explains why people see so little of the world. The brain simplifies reality to help action.
Peterson completes the analysis of Disney's Pinocchio. He covers the final parts of the story.
Peterson continues the analysis of Disney's Pinocchio. He links the story to child development and morality. Good parenting lets a child's unique nature emerge.
This lecture is the second in the 2017 Maps of Meaning series. Peterson reviews ideas from the first lecture. He stresses that humans see the world through stories. These stories help solve the problem of how to act across time in social groups.
Jordan Peterson opens this lecture with personal stories from the 1980s. He describes his fear of nuclear war during the Cold War. He recounts a visit to a decommissioned missile silo.