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Critique of Postmodernism
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Saving the Humanities | Stephen Blackwood | EP 188
Jordan B Peterson·Aug 23, 2021
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The theory that all human institutions are predicated on power is an anti-truth that justifies the use of power as a weapon.
“I think that the idea that human social institutions especially the functional social institutions of the west that they're predicated on the drive to power I think that's an anti-truth”
Jordan B Peterson · Aug 2021 · 2 episodes · 1.3M views on this topic
The postmodern claim that human social structures are based purely on the will to power is a reductive and cynical misinterpretation of reality.
“and which i do not accept which i think we can show to be wrong very clearly rationally philosophically”
Jordan B Peterson · Aug 2021 · 2 episodes · 1.3M views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
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