Episode · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 2021-10-25
Books mentioned on 198. Enlightenment and the Righteous Mind | Steven Pinker and Jonathan Haidt
This episode was recorded on June 6th, 2021. Dr Peterson, Steven Pinker, and Jonathan Haidt sit down to discuss truth, how societies function, utopias, the role of religion, & more.
Jordan Peterson discussed Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Enlightenment Now
Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker is a data-driven defense of reason, science, humanism, and progress that argues humanity is living in an era of unprecedented health, prosperity, and safety.
Discussed“there we go so stephen in your book um enlightenment now and other works you've been tarred and feathered so to speak as an optimist”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged The Righteous Mind
“center-left atheist jew um they when they read the righteous mind they find it useful and they see that i don't have the usual academic contempt for religion”
Plugged Enlightenment Now
“if i can allude to another cheeky passage toward the end of enlightenment now i say well is do we need to have uh”
Plugged The Righteous Mind
“so the story that i tell in the righteous mind um is that we is that humans are products of multi-level selection”
Plugged The Righteous Mind
“and the argument that i make in the righteous mind is that humans show signs of some group level selection”
Plugged The Righteous Mind
“and in the righteous mind i i i was so pleased that i could integrate two of my my heroes in the social sciences which are durkheim and darwin”