Episode · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 2024-05-16
Books mentioned on 449. Trauma and the Demolition of Faith | Ronnie Janoff-Bulman
Dr. Jordan B.
Jordan Peterson recommended The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper, and discussed Shattered assumptions by Ronnie Janoff-Bulman and Im Westen nichts Neues by Erich Maria Remarque.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Shattered assumptions
Discussed“She's a social psychologist and the author of two books; one from about 30 years ago called 'Shattered Assumptions' and the other called 'The Two Moralitities: The Origin and Fall of Right and Left Politics.' Why did I want to talk to Dr. Janoff-Bulman?”
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Im Westen nichts Neues
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is a classic anti-war novel depicting the brutal physical and psychological realities experienced by young German soldiers during World War I.
Discussed“Well, it's interesting, because the Book of Job is one of the books that really sets the stage in the biblical corpus for the story of the crucifixion, right? Because the crucifixion story is the story of Job expanded even more thoroughly, right?”
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The Open Society and Its Enemies
The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper is a renowned philosophical defense of liberal democracy and critical rationalism against totalitarian ideologies.
Recommended“You know, the notion that we're not going to make a change every second based on one disconfirming thing—I mean, I actually love Karl Popper. You know, the notion is we should be cognitively conservative when it comes to our schemas, or our theories.”
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Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Shattered assumptions
“she's a social psychologist and the author of two books one from about 30 years ago called shattered assumptions and the other called the two moralities the origin and fall of right and left politics”
Plugged Two Moralities
“she's a social psychologist and the author of two books one from about 30 years ago called shattered assumptions and the other called the two moralities the origin and fall of right and left politics”
Plugged Shattered assumptions
“I mean and I I talk about that actually in the book but I don't talk I only have a few pages on the neurophysiology of of um trauma”
Plugged We Who Wrestle with God
“it's a hypothesis that I've developed fairly extensively but I'm working on in detail in in the new book that I'm working on right now called we who wrestle with gold”
Plugged Two Moralities
“because when I was doing the two moralities book of course all of that is funneled right through motivation”
Plugged Two Moralities
“And I do agree, you know, it's interesting, we talk about motivation because when I was doing the 'Two Moralities' book, of course all of that is funneled right through motivation.”