It's not just myths though... He's knows you can't get an ought from an is... he wants to know how to find the oughts...
Then the ancient wisdom will go. If it can't be supported on its own terms & has to be included as knowledge, it probably should.
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Yeah. It will eventually but he wants to preserve what is "true" (his definition) about those.
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So do we all. It is ideal if we can keep the good bits, understand what underlies them & lose the false beliefs & dubious ethics around them
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This is what he does with Bible. I'm with him that the genesis myths are probably super important in this way and should not be thrown away.
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Well, I think we're going to have to just agree to disagree.
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I don't think they're literally true. Just the compression of thousands of years of knowledge (of the pragmatic sort) worth decompressing.
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I find them very interesting historically & culturally. This is what I study after all. How ppl used religious narratives to find meaning.
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That might be related to modernist overreach and trying to remake society on rationalist principles and making a mess of it
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Yes, probably. We address this here:https://areomagazine.com/2017/08/22/a-manifesto-against-the-enemies-of-modernity/amp/ …
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Yes it's all related. Peterson could be interpreted as just making a critique of modernism rather than being anti-modernist
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OK, but lets not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
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