Books ALL MEN Should Read┃Jordan Peterson
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2022
- Jordan Peterson talks about the books that everyone should read to understand themselves better.
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It's surprising how under the radar the books on Nixorus are. If you're curious, they're definitely worth a look.
This is what Mortimer Adler was saying 70-80 years ago.
What he described about certain books referencing other books and the books that get referenced the most are the ones that the most useful, that's the same thing I've done with teachers. That's how I found teachers that have helped me a lot in life.
almost all western lit leads back to the bible!
@@bowswindle8701 No more The Bible than Homer and the Greek Tragedians, and I could argue the latter's influence was more literary than the former. The Bible's influence was more, well, religious. Dante, Shakespeare, and Milton may have looked to The Bible for content, themes, and allusions, but they looked to Homer (and Virgil, who was contemporary with some of The Bible) for literary models.
@@jonathanhenderson9422 you could argue that but you’d be disagreeing with most literary scholars! Funny you mention Dante & Milton’s who’s main works literally wouldn’t have existed without the Bible. Yes “homer” is also a basis for literature but to call it more influential is just not factual.
@@bowswindle8701 I'm NOT disagreeing with most literary scholars. Yes, Dante and Milton took their content from The Bible, not their literary style, craft, form, or anything else. As a writer I can tell you that content matters far less than style, craft, and form. The latter is what separates the great writers from the poor and mediocre. Also, it is absolutely factual that Homer was more influential than The Bible in a literary sense. There are even scholars who think The Bible's authors were influenced by the Homeric myths, but that's debatable.
@@jonathanhenderson9422 SINCE YOU ARE REPLYING TO @bowswindle8701
and i will suppose you are also a christian or
Do you know the bible itself references other older books
Agreed. Works that define first principles, or sine qua non, provides the canon with which can be the framework that knowledge is drawn upon.
Every man should read Don Quixote at least one time in their life. The amount of ideas in Cervante's work is outstanding. If you want to appreciate the beauty of the loser and how brutal the reality is, there's no rival.
Fantastic ! And so funny ... Well part one at least is funny. Part 2 is more about wiseness.
Wow, thanks Charlie , Because I have a listen to lectures on Don Quijote and have been trying to find the time to read it in your comment has helped me decide that I will read it next
@@Jedi_Mind_ You're welcome. The first book can be read as a collection of short stories. It is in the second book that you actually find the most philosophical content (though the first one also has some of it). Enjoy your reading!
I would nominate "Hadji Murad" by Leo Tolstoy and "Death and the Dervish" on any grand Master 'secular' reading list.
I would ad Euel Ardens - Down Here in the Warmth. Wow. is all i can say. This book is about a race riot in NYC but barely mentions race. No victimization. No woke simpy messages for men. Just responsibility and teaching that responsibility through example. And exposing the media manipulation of the masses. One of the best books I've ever read.
Bertrand Russell: History of Western Philosophy, with this you get the history of our thought and culture without the lies and fairy tales.
"Mr. Spontaneous Rides the Bus" - so glad to see this on the list. So underrated.
I Agree With Jordan Peterson! He Is A Genius!!!
I used to be a school teacher. Larry Gonick's, "Cartoon History of the Universe" and Bill Bryson's , "a Short History of Nearly Everything" were books that I thought all should read. Their list of bibliography's in the back are very useful. Lots of other stuff too, but those come to mind as short and to the point. The bible is helpful party fodder because you can pretty much justify any action with it, and like you said, a lot springs from it. I've often said something to the effect of "I don't know what pisses me off more, people that read the bible and don't read Darwin or people that read Darwin and don't read the bible." Your suggestions are always nice, I enjoy your channel, thanks for posting and keep up the good work!
Thanks
For me books of fiction become canonical when they point to certain universal truths and philosophical juxtapositions through entertainment and souls searching from the writer. Yes! There is always a truth behind learning through play.
I started a journey of reading some time ago. Reading mainly self-help. Philosophy and that sort that can help me directly. But I recently read 1984 and The Alchemist. There is more than enough room for fictitious literature to provoke deep thinking and further understanding.
Read the great books of the Western tradition. That's not "the patriarchy" or whatever, that's just appreciating and respecting great art (literature), like admiring a great cathedral or a beautiful painting or profoundly resonant musical piece.
Some folks think erasing all roots is beneficial. I think I would disagree, even though those roots possess some ugliness. It's like the Star Trek episode Tapestry. You pull on an untidy thread and you unravel the entire beautiful piece. Then you're left with nothing.
@@theboombody You've got my like or upvote - not only for what you said but also for referencing Star Trek! 😊
@@pattube I learned a lot from Q and Picard.
Knock off, Proustian ass comment
@@theboombody Those people have no replacement answer based in reality which makes them diabolical at best.
I hate to do this to my algorithm but, he right.
😂 I hope you’ve been enlightened in some degree in these last few months
Nice
One thing I wonder is if these books are a call to adventures then surely they are just a means to an end? Finding a call to adventure must surely be a means to going on the adventure itself?
The book that brings back men to total fitness of mind, spirit, body is "The Carpenter's Workout." Kind of a masterpiece!
This was beyond profound.
Arthur Schopenhauer's The world as will and representation influenced Darwin, Freud, Dostojevski , Nietzsche,Einstein,Schrodinger, Wagner,Tolstoi. Reading it is essential for understanding of the world
It is, and always has been, the inspired Word of your Creator. Truth doesn't stop being true because of nonbelievers. Best of luck to you.
The truth is also not explicitly the truth, because a believer claims it to be.
The inspired word of the creator that endorses genocide etc...
People still believe God dictated the Bible.
Does this guy ever take a day off?
@@JCPJCPJCP in modern terms be like saying God spoke to me through a computer!!
Books that all *people should read
Books that all men should read.
The books speak.
So...
Bible, Shakespeare, Dante &
Milton?
The rant about toxic masculinity are simply jealousy over other capable human's achievements that resonated beyond their generation and time. Something narcissists wish they could but cant due to their self indulgence
i was hoping for a book reccomendation, arsed reading the bible lol
largely undiscovered work of genius - Stoner by John Williams.
it's gained popularity in recent years in certain online circles, but I'd guess that far less than 1% of American adults have even heard of it
It's a pretty mediocre novel, compared with the novels of his time. His contemporaries were Barth, Gass, Reed, Elkin. The disparity in quality is tremendous! It was deservedly forgotten, and only a turn to worshipping banal, minimalist prose could have turned him into the genius he's mistaken for.
Yeah it's a quite good book, kind of the story of every modern man in this century ;)
The more we understand Christianity, the more we can understand European history, including the colonial and post colonial period (and so therefore the entire earth).The more we understand history, the more we can understand ourselves. The more we understand ourselves, the more power we shall have to better steer the ship of humanity into the future. The alternative is like driving whilst blindfolded…..at least this allows us to pry a portion of the blindfold away from the field of our vision and help us see what’s up ahead of us a little more clearly. It would be hugely ignorant to simply dismiss Christianity as some outdated and ancient form of thinking.
Why The Bible rather than Homer, the Greek Tragedians, and Virgil? The latter were far more influential in terms of literary import. The Bible perhaps provided more thematic influences, but very few of the later great authors took The Bible as a literary model. If you want to understand Milton you need to read Virgil more than The Bible; if you want to understand Shakespeare you need to read Euripides (and Chaucer) more than The Bible.
Is Bible worth reading for a non-believer?
Certainly, the King James version is one of the most beautiful books in English. Treat it as a work of fiction, with crap stories, but brilliant language.
Just came to see if any feminist have screamed to change title to include both genders😂😂😂
Chances are slim that JP read them.
Chances are good that if you believe that you're thick.
Have you?
what? he 100% read them
Read the banned Gnostic writings before you get into the canonical Bible. Context is absolutely everything, and the esoteric Gnostic perspective will give you the proper lens through which to read the Church approved materials that would otherwise be perplexing.
Well they were largely written after the canonical books so I don’t think they’re needed to understand the earlier works
@@Big_Steve11 That's what the Church would like you to believe.
The "early" church is the true church
@@Strive1974 Yes. The original Church of Satan.
@@freethinker79 But its true. Gnosticism was not fully developed until the late first century, early second century. Certain biblical writings do go against early forms of what transformed into gnosticism.
Watch Spiderman into the spiderverse 😊
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Men of culture, we meet here again.
He won't mention Marx's Capital!
I suppose everyone has a 'Price'!
With everyone being subjected to be wage workers.
All books are derive from the dictionary. 🤣
So many banalities in such a short amount of time.
That books exist in relationship to one another is not a "postmodernist" claim; it's a commonsensical saying of old that books are born of other books.
The bit about having a small staff to study what makes a canon is laughable in its smugness; that legwork has been done, it was done hundreds of years ago.
I can't tell if he's a coward or incurious to define the importance of "canonical" books in the amount of times they've been "quoted". That's a crass, materialistic, celebrity-like, capitalist, quantifiable criterion that leaves no leeway to an individual exploring on his own whatever his conscience's inclined to. It's to give up our own capacity to think and to surrender to the opinions of others. It means being a conformist whose references are the same as everyone else's. That's a path straight to dullness, sameness, and psitacism.
Ultimately Peterson is terrified of a changing world that doesn't have the cultural references of his childhood that he's come to value as the touchstone. Instead of encouraging viewers to be audacious and engage with the modern ideas and to take a risk on new books whose "value" hasn't yet calcified, he urges them to play it safe. What a boring man and what boring advice to anyone who truly wants to open his mind to new thoughts.
By the way, if we're going by number of citations as the value of a book, I'm dutybound to remind you all that Marx and Chomsky are among the two most quoted persons in academia. Strangely enough, though both more than fulfill Peterson's own criterion, books by both of them are absent from his list.
This is so ludicrous.
Women are excluded ?
Agreed. The book of fiction known as the Bible has influenced innumerable works in the past several thousand years. It's all there. Man v man. Man v world. Man learns lesson. Man suffers loss. Man celebrates victory.
I believe the Bible is nonfiction
Proof that it's fiction because I've never seen it in that section?
My assumption of fiction@@mr.retrohale6673 is due in part to the way opposing religious people view their "works of god" comparatively to the Bible and Christian's view of others. Non believe the ridiculous narrative in the others. They all can't be true. Why would any be considered as Devine if all are not?
@@Scorpion75_ simple science my man. You can't make something out of nothing. You can go as far back as you want and someone had to create it
@@mr.retrohale6673 You can’t prove a negative. It’s like proving that mermaids don’t exist. I can’t show you proof that there isn’t a mermaid in the ocean. That doesn’t mean mermaids must exist. But scientifically a being that’s half human could not survive underwater. The Bible is full of impossible things. Whether they’re true is irrelevant. The lessons are what’s relevant and it’s that weedy debate that’s caused centuries of struggle.
The best fiction book is Bible
You mean the best non-fiction historical book?
@@ApexTheory no. The best fiction book.
Your statement about the bible is fiction.
@@krukrok5218Your comment is exactly the sort of smug foolishness a 15-yo boy would spout.
Jesus loves you bro please accept him as your Lord and savior you won’t regret it!
Peterson's list is a little too narrow and parochial for the modern world. The canon for a globalized 21st century should include not only the Bible, but also the Tao Te Ching, the Quran, the Bhagavad Gita, not to mention the works of Shankara, Maimonides, Avicenna and Rumi, no name but a few.
The reading of antiquated fiction doesn’t help you on the modern world. It’s just an ego flex for weak minds...
What a dumb comment.
Lol
that literally makes no sense. our world has been created and structured upon these 'antiquated fictions'? how ignorant can one be? I'm not saying that it's empirically true either (which does not matter entirely, the history of humanity's progression is what is to be known and for what reasons). your comment lacks depth.
Oh really? Read The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess and see what timeline we are at in that book! It’s also a canonical book in regards to Sodom and Gomorrah 😇
The modern world exists because of the antiquated world. It’s the foundation we live on. The modern world is not separate and one day our time will be antiquated as well.