📚 6 Books mentioned in "Hell and Hedonism | Dr. Peter Kreeft | EP 291" of The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Podcast: The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Episode: Hell and Hedonism | Dr. Peter Kreeft | EP 291
Published on September 26, 2022
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!
Chesterton's stories, essays and poems, by g.k. chesterton
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one of my favorite books is chesterton's book on Thomas Aquinas called St Thomas Aquinas the Del Marx and the main point of that book is that This brilliant Theologian and philosopher is the champion of Common Sense
Dr. Kreeft mentions this as one of his favorite books and describes its main point about Thomas Aquinas being the champion of common sense.
Confessions
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the same is true of Augustine's confessions It's a blockbuster book
Dr. Kreeft discusses teaching this book and how deeply it affects students.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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and I mean the second volume is pretty much a straight retelling of Saint George and the Dragon and it's brilliantly structured mythologically
Dr. Kreeft specifically mentions the second book in the Harry Potter series and its mythological structure.
Notes from Underground
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well in in Notes from Underground Dostoevsky Nails this to a because he says and that's so brilliant
Dr. Kreeft references the book and its author to discuss a critique of utopian visions.
The Brothers Karamazov
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he he basically says elaborate on what you said that Mephistopheles position is that it's like Ivan karamazov in the brothers karamazov he says life is so Rife with catastrophe and suffering betrayal malevolence
Dr. Kreeft references the character Ivan Karamazov from the book to illustrate a philosophical position. Later, Peterson and Kreeft discuss the characters Alyosha and Mishkin from Dostoevsky's novels.
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Book 1)
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and and that Harry does undertake a track and a quest like like Frodo and Bilbo in the in The Lord of the Rings in The Hobbit and overcomes evil through self-sacrifice
Dr. Kreeft compares Harry Potter's quest to that of characters in The Lord of the Rings.