Episode · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 2022-05-09
Books mentioned on 251. You Probably Should Have Read The Bible | Franciscan University
This episode was recorded on April 4, 2022. In this speech at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Jordan shared recent thoughts on ethics, scripture, and the problem of perception.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Hamlet
William Shakespeare's timeless play Hamlet explores themes of betrayal, mortal dread, and the paralyzing nature of overthinking as a young prince seeks vengeance for his father's murder.
Discussed“but more particularly it arose in the humanities departments especially in in departments that were associated concentrating on literary criticism because the literary critics especially the french the post-modernist types came to a similar realization at some point um i'm condensing a lot of work here but their basic proposition was um well how do you know when you've landed”
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How to Read the Bible
James L.
Discussed“so you take a text like hamlet and you get a hundred students to write an essay about you know a particular stanza a set of stanzas soliloquy and a hundred of them have a hundred different opinions”
