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This week, I explain why you should visualize what your life would look like if your wants and needs were met. Then, I talk with Dr. Nigel Biggar about the modern day revisionist movement. From the archives, I recall the brilliance of the great philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Identify Your Needs and Wants
One of the things I learned with my students and with my clinical clients — and I helped them do this — was to develop a literal vision for their life. If you could have what you wanted and needed, to arm you against the slings and arrows of fate, or at least to defend you against it in principle, what would that look like?
That is a kind of prayer; it is like, knock and the door will open, and ask and you will receive. You could conceivably have what you wanted, but you have to specify what it is and you have to have a vision of it. Part of what the humanities education should do and the religious education, certainly, is to flesh out a vision of a mode of being and a mode of perception that would justify suffering — or maybe even more than justify it.
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Be the Reliable Person at a Funeral
If the question emerges, “Who are you?,” you could say, you are this plan. That is how people usually identify. Maybe they have no plan at all, and they are just in chaos. That is like being in the belly of the beast — nihilistic and chaos, and they have no plan. They are just chaos itself, and that is a very dreadful situation for people to be in. Or maybe they conjure together a plan. That is their identity.
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Separating Good from Evil in the British Empire | Dr. Nigel Biggar | EP 359
Dr. Nigel Biggar and I spend time parsing out the truths and falsehoods from the modern-day revisionist movement. We explore the ethics of imperialism, the motivations for the British colonies, their role in the slave trade, and other aspects from this history.
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The Brilliant Arrogance of Nietzsche
I often mention the brilliant existential philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche, in my lectures. Nietzsche used powerful one-liners, and every sentence he wrote is a complex thought. He is said to have philosophized with a hammer.
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Thank you for reading,
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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