Hello,
In this week's edition, I address why commitment and courageous trust are critical to the journey of faith. Then, I interview presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, and, in the archives, I look back on a dinner I went to with Joe Rogan.
|
|
Act With Courageous Trust
|
|
Kierkegaard talks about the idea of being a knight of faith, and he is classed with the Christian existentialists as a consequence of the practicalities of his view. He basically puts forward a proposition that I think is akin to the proposition that undergirds marriage, which is: You cannot find out whether creation is good or evil without being all in on your bet, just like you cannot be married without saying, “I am shackling myself to you and I am not going to run away no matter what, so we better get to know each other and get along because this is how it is going to be.”
Without that, you cannot be deeply committed enough to the marriage to make it work. So it seems to me on the forefront of faith, you have to act in the world with courageous trust — not naïve trust, but courageous trust — in the potential goodness of being in order to actually discover whether or not that faith is justified. And that is partly why it is faith; you have to put the cart before the horse. You cannot wait around.
|
|
New European Dates For Beyond Order Tour
|
|
|
Dr. Peterson returns to Europe as part of his Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life Tour. New dates are available now.
|
|
|
All five episodes of Jordan’s Vision & Destiny series are now available on DailyWire+. Jordan draws on research and experience so you can transform the chaotic potential of the future into an ordered vision. Whether you want to watch an episode at a time or stream the series in one sitting, the choice is yours. Watch exclusively on DailyWire+.
|
|
Introduction To The Idea Of God
Let’s take a look at the structure of the book itself. The first thing about the Bible is that it’s a comedy. And a comedy has a happy ending. That’s a strange thing because the Greek gods’ stories were almost always tragic. Now, the Bible is a comedy. It has a happy ending. Everyone lives. There’s a heaven. What you think about that is a completely different issue. I’m just telling you the structure of the story. It’s something like: There was Paradise at the beginning of time, and then some cataclysm occurred and people fell into history, and history is limitation and mortality and suffering and self-consciousness. But there’s a mode of being — or potentially the establishment of the state — that will transcend, and that’s what time is aiming at. That’s the idea of the story.
|
|
|
Vivek Ramaswamy and I discuss ESG investing, the culture wars, the upcoming US presidential election, and Vivek's recently announced candidacy.
|
|
|
About four years ago, I went to dinner with Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, and other members of the intellectual dark web — the usual suspects. Find out what happens when you have a three-hour conversation with a man who asks questions and genuinely wants to know the answers and another who thinks faster than he can talk.
|
|
Thank you for reading,
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
|
|
|
|
