Episode · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 2023-11-02
Jordan Peterson & Tony Abbott: books mentioned on The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast #393
393. The Makings of A Great Leader | The Honourable Tony Abbott
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson sits down with Australian journalist and former prime minister, the Honourable Tony Abbott.
Jordan Peterson discussed The book of Exodus, The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf, and Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Tony Abbott discussed Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The book of Exodus
Discussed“I've been reading and writing about the Book of Exodus and conducted a seminar with a variety of people on that book. I was reading a section the other day where the burning bush appears to Moses, which is a compelling section.”
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The Beauty Myth
Discussed“She wrote 'The Beauty Myth' and has been a pretty powerful voice on the left, promoting the narrative of patriarchal oppression. I mean, that's a narrative she buys.”
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Man's Search for Meaning
Discussed“and one of the books that I read as a youngster was Victor frankl's famous book from death camp to existentialism um now I didn't know too much still don't know too much about the existentialism but I do know uh that he survived that uh by virtue of uh focusing on the love he had for his wife”
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Faust
Discussed“If you look at the conditions of life, especially when things are not going well for you, you could easily proclaim, like the antinatalists do, that life is so bloody miserable in its essence that it would be better if it didn't exist at all. That's Mephistopheles, by the way, in Goethe's Faust.”
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Passing The Beauty Myth
“I talked to this leftist scholar Naomi wolf a while back on my podcast you know and and she's she wrote The Beauty myth and she's been a pretty uh powerful voice on the left on the pro patriarchal oppression front”