Why Jordan Peterson is Wrong About Responsibility

Through 12 Rules for Life and Beyond Order, I examine Jordan Peterson’s philosophy of responsibility. First, I try to understand what Peterson says about individual responsibility. Second, I take a look at the philosophy of free will and responsibility. I look at determinism, psychology, and history to begin to draw a between what we’re responsible for and what we’re not. Ultimately, I argue that Peterson holds us individually responsible for too much, and that when we look to the history of social movements, we see that social and collective action is just as necessary. Peterson emphasizes individual responsibility to an unreasonable degree, while discounting the necessity and power of social or collective responsibility. We also take a few detours down some familiar routes: feminism, postmodern neo-Marxism, and identity politics. #jordanpeterson #critique #identitypolitics #responsibility Then & Now is FAN-FUNDED! Support me on Patreon and pledge as little as $1 per video: http://patreon.com/user?u=3517018 Or send me a one-off tip of any amount and help me make more videos: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=JJ76W4CZ2A8J2 Buy on Amazon through this link to support the channel: https://amzn.to/2ykJe6L Follow me on: Facebook: http://fb.me/thethenandnow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thethenandnow/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lewlewwaller Subscribe to the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/then-now-philosophy-history-politics/id1499254204 https://open.spotify.com/show/1Khac2ih0UYUtuIJEWL47z Sources: Sources Selected writings from Reason and Responsibility, Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy, Joel Fienberg and Russ Shafer-Landau From ‘Social Dimensions of Moral Responsibility’ ed. by. Katrina Hutchinson, Catriona MacKenzie, Marina Orshana: ‘Power, Social Inequities, and the Conversational Theory of Moral Responsibility’ by Michael McKenna ‘Moral Responsibility and the Social Dynamics of Power and Oppression’ by Catriona Mackenzie ‘The Social Constitution of Agency and Responsibility: Oppression, Politics, and Moral Ecology’ by Manuel R . Vargas https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-responsibility/ Jordan Peterson, 12 Rules for Life Jordan Peterson, Beyond Order Michael Katz, The Undeserving Poor: America’s enduring Confrontation with Poverty Credits Jordan Peterson image: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jordan_Peterson_(46411926312).jpg B.F. Skinner image: Silly rabbit, CC BY 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/B.F._Skinner_at_Harvard_circa_1950.jpg Nelson Mandela image: © copyright John Mathew Smith 2001, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Nelson_Mandela_1994.jpg