He seems to me to be using a modified Socratic method, except that rather than waiting for you to work around to your next questions, he anticipates it and shows where it goes next and this for several more levels. We are talking about YouTube videos of lectures mostly, but they reveal that he has spent a lot, a lot, (I mean a lot) of time as a clinical therapist listening, as in yes, really listening. He deliberately tries to think out loud for his students and carry them along. I think of it as a re-enactment of his meditations and conversations but without the names and details, only the progression of ideas and the personal decisions that result.
He seems to rely heavily on Nietzsche and often urges people to read “The Gulag Archipelago” by Solzhenitsyn.
I also was confused by your comment and am very interested in which presentation gave you that impression. If you would, please watch this one http://www.ideacityonline.com/video/jordan-peterson-political-correctness-postmodernism/ and give us your reaction. Thanks!
Thank you for link. Best thing I have experienced by Peterson. He is incredibly accurate and coherent in what he says. And he is logical. What a relief from his usual idea salad.
He accurately describes the problem with perception and his statement of the result of same imposing on us a will to power is also true IMO.
What he seems to have missed is the classic philosophical answer to the perception issue, that of Moderate Realism. I myself have hopped around with the discomfort that can arise when one dead ends at skepticism and power as operative ideas. I find great solace in Moderate Realism and Aquinas and Mortimer Adler as good sources for understanding it.