Episode · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 2023-05-22
Jordan Peterson & Nigel Biggar: books mentioned on The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast #359
359. Separating Good from Evil in the British Empire | Dr. Nigel Biggar
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and Dr. Nigel Biggar break down his new publication, “Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning,” and parse out the truths and falsehoods from the modern day revisionist movement.
Jordan Peterson discussed Colonialism by Nigel Biggar, Hitler's Table Talk by Heinrich Heim and others, and Hitler's Table Talk by Adolf Hitler.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Colonialism
Discussed“his controversial book colonialism a moral Reckoning was recently published and hit the non-fiction bestseller list in the UK”
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Hitler's Table Talk
Discussed“one of the things I learned for example I read a book called Hitler's table talk and it was uh transcripts of his spontaneous discussions over meal times”
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Hitler's Table Talk
Discussed“Now, one of the things I learned, for example, I read a book called 'Hitler's Table Talk,' and it was transcripts of his spontaneous discussions over meal times over about a three-year period. I was very interested in the psychology of contempt and derision, and Hitler never used language that was associated with fear in relationship to the Jews.”
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Other mentions in this episode (10) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Colonialism
“His controversial book, 'Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning,' was recently published and hit the non-fiction bestseller list in the UK.”
Plugged Colonialism
“So, Nigel, we're going to talk today about your book, 'Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning,' which has just been released a few weeks ago and, as I understand, is doing quite well.”
Plugged Colonialism
“So in my book, tell me if I'm wrong, when I'm coming to a judgment about the British Empire, I don't shy away from the really bad bits. Insofar as I identify as British, those are painful for me to admit, but I do admit them.”
Plugged Colonialism
“So I applied that same thing to myself; when I come across material in history that I read about that is negative about the British Empire, I report it in my book. There are a number of pages that deal with the 150 years of abundant involvement in slave trading and slavery in, I think it's the second chapter.”
Plugged Colonialism
“I've read them, and on the whole, I mean, are there a number of cases in the book where I lay out what they say and then I take it apart? Most of the time, in my view, it falls apart, but as I said, the reader can see what I'm doing exactly, and if the reader thinks I'm not”
Plugged Colonialism
“in some ways Jordan the book I've just written in colonialism I feel that all that I've written that probably is the book I was born to write”
Passing The Merchant of Venice
“I'm thinking of a passage in the book of The Prophet Jeremiah where the Prophet is complaining to God. He's saying, 'You give me your word and I speak it, and everyone hates me and insults me.”
Plugged Colonialism
“On the inside cover of my book, I insisted on having a photograph of young Chinese student protesters in Hong Kong with a placard that said 'Hong Kong is British' to make that point.”
Plugged What's Wrong with Rights?
“I did did a book on what's wrong with rights in 2020 and then this book came out”
Plugged Utilitarianism
“I wrote a book on what's wrong with rights in 2020, and then this book came out.”