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.
Thanks for your reply. I do not think that Peterson would entertain any metaphysical discussion that did not directly bear on the individuals he is trying to help and their very real problems. He is tackling the notions that young people have related to him, they having been influenced by the formal education establishment culture.
You have been reading Aquinas, etc. on your own time to find answer to your own questions. Your point about moderate realism, please correct me, would be interesting in direct debate with a post modernist teacher or writer, but how would it help a college student attending one of these lectures?
(Thanks for any of your insights and yours is the last word after this.)