{"id":8946,"date":"2018-08-02T05:00:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=8946"},"modified":"2018-11-11T14:31:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T19:31:29","slug":"567-the-search-for-truth-avoiding-the-lobster-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/8946","title":{"rendered":"567 – The search for truth – Avoiding the lobster trap"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Anyone attending his London Ontario appearance at Centennial Hall on July 21 would have noticed that Jordan Peterson<\/strong>\u2019s message is no longer focused on gender issues or on his conflict with university policies. His mission has now turned towards philosophical fundamentals and the determination of Truth.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this venture, Dr Peterson has relied heavily upon religious and mythological symbolism and metaphor, while finding himself opposed to most \u2018atheistic\u2019 philosophical interpretations of Truth<\/strong>. Secular philosophies, he suggests, are incapable of describing humanity\u2019s Truth, lacking \u201can animated, spiritual world, saturated with meaning, imbued with moral purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n

This view of Truth has now itself become subject to a growing controversy, one ironically being debated amongst those who are already generally agreed that Truth and Reality are objectively determined<\/strong> \u2013 which includes today\u2019s show panelists as they review some of the ideas of Jordan Peterson.<\/p>\n

Do abstractions and religious stories used to describe Truth help clarify or confuse the issue?<\/strong> The correct answer may simply depend on perspective and context.<\/p>\n

The determination of Truth is necessary in order to arrive at the correct Hierarchy of Values necessary for the survival and well being of humanity and life itself, observes Peterson. Hierarchies are natural and essential to all forms of life on earth, he says, comparing the likes of everything from lobsters to human beings in his demonstration of that principle.<\/p>\n

Attaining values, in turn, requires \u2018sacrifice<\/strong>\u2019 according to Peterson, a word that itself ignites yet another controversy \u2013 the meaning of \u2018sacrifice.\u2019 Citing Russia\u2019s revolution and history of \u2018sacrifice\u2019 in light of its atheistic and secular ideology, Peterson expressed a hope that Vladimir Putin would embrace and support Russia\u2019s current return to a Christian orthodoxy.<\/p>\n

Peterson distinguishes between two kinds of \u2018sacrifice\u2019: the \u2018self-sacrifice\u2019 necessary to achieve one\u2019s values, and the \u2018sacrifice of others\u2019 as practiced by Russia\u2019s despotic revolutionaries.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, by using the same word \u2018sacrifice\u2019 to describe two opposite concepts, ideologically motivated state murder and mayhem becomes morally equated with personal self interest. Worse, by suggesting that \u2018sacrifice\u2019 is necessary in the attainment of personal values, \u2018sacrifice\u2019 has been elevated from vice to virtue.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the attainment of real values, no \u2018sacrifice’ is necessary.<\/p>\n

True sacrifice requires a loss of a greater value for a lesser value or non-value. A real loss must be experienced (such as that experienced by the victims of Russia\u2019s revolutionaries), not an increase in value being described as a \u2018sacrifice.\u2019 \u2018Giving up\u2019 one value today for a greater value in the future does not constitute \u2018sacrifice\u2019 \u2013 it is an investment towards a greater value.<\/strong> Most importantly, it is a choice made freely.<\/p>\n

Just semantics? Not when Truth is at stake. Because determining the Truth always depends on getting the definitions Just Right.<\/p>\n

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