A very thorough look at the clarity, reason & epistemological concerns many people otherwise inclined to be sympathetic to at least some of Dr Peterson's views have raised & an explanation of why It is so frustrating & often fruitless to raise them.https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/03/the-intellectual-we-deserve …
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Replying to @HPluckrose
>First, take some extremely obvious platitude or truism. Make sure it actually does contain some insight, though it can be rather vague. Many philosophers and public intellectuals, historically. >It does help if you are male and Caucasian. Casual -isms detract from your point.
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Replying to @__ice9 @HPluckrose
>If it’s so “obvious” that he can be written off as a charlatan, why do so many people respect his intellect? Motivational speakers need not be especially original-- merely memorable. I do not see anything fundamentally different about, e.g., Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning".
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Replying to @__ice9 @HPluckrose
The litmus test of utility in such a niche predominantly hinges on efficacy for the reader, not subjective perceptions of originality by ideologically-blinkered critics.
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Not denying at all that he fills a need for many. He is effective and useful to them for that reason. It's whether his ideas actually have any worth that is being addressed and argued against with much evidence, I think.
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