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To: cdcdawg
"Cleaning up your room won’t stop the slide into degeneracy."

No?

Perhaps it will help.

As I understand it, his point is that so many people today are willing to take a firm stand on what they believe is right or wrong with society and yet the same people are unwilling and incapable of organizing their own lives.

Consider the lack of humility displayed by the Canadian government in mandating the use of certain recently-created pronouns and providing punishment for those who dared to question their authority to do so.

Peterson, rightly I think, cautions that our freedom of speech is not just a tool for expressing ideas but is an essential tool for formulating and refining ideas, by allowing us to introduce our ideas to others, hear their responses, and incorporate improvements. At the same time, the person with whom we are conversing gets an opportunity to refine his own ideas.

Without the ability to expound on defective ideas, we risk never being able to improve our lives with new ideas.

26 posted on 08/09/2018 1:22:37 PM PDT by William Tell
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To: William Tell
"Without the ability to expound on defective ideas, we risk never being able to improve our lives with new ideas."

THAT is profound...imho

36 posted on 08/09/2018 7:33:22 PM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: William Tell

Bingo...this is the whole point of Logos. Btw, I think Peterson has called himself a classical liberal, which is for the most part pretty much western thought. I think a lot of us could call ourselves classical liberals. Peterson also argues that the is the need of the left, they have the purpose of being a check on hierarchy system which ultimately becomes corrupt without being pulled back. It is a constant balancing act, a tug and pull so to speak between the dispossessed and those that are part of the hierarchy. Classical liberalism is that attempt at balancing the two poles.


38 posted on 08/09/2018 7:34:16 PM PDT by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
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