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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Understood. I would have to think about whether Peterson is unique in that regard, in terms of vagary and multiple interpretations. Or whether it's an artifact of the level he is trying to posit ideas (metanarrative). Or whether it is that he is particularly slippery debater.
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I think it's a mix of his using needless verbosity, and his arguing both sides of balances (e.g., between openness to foreigners and closed borders, between egoism and altriusm, etc.).
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The verbosity can be critiqued, but I think arguing both sides of balances (i.e. "complexity") is something we desperately need public intellectuals to attempt. Peterson may fail in some ways, but he's integrative & many of his critics are mono-perspectival. Part of his draw.
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