Dankzij de Verlichting hechten Westerse samenlevingen veel waarde aan rationeel denken, logisch redeneren, de vrijheid van het individu en mensenrechten. Juist deze manier van denken heeft in het Westen voor een toename in de welvaart en gezondheid voor alle mensen gezorgd, die zijn weerga niet kent. Je zou dus verwachten dat we dankbaar zijn voor en zuinig op onze verworvenheden. `The postmodernists completely reject the structure of Western civilization.ยด
This is a clip from a 2017 Manning Centre Conference (February 23-25 in Ottawa), where I spoke along with Professor Gad Saad and John Carpay, President of the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms about the political turmoil on university campuses and in broader society, and the role of postmodern theory in producing that turmoil. The full clip is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30U1AAuo_wE
I’m indebted to the YouTube channel Philosophy Insights for cutting this clip.
A transcript is available here: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/06/05/jordan_peterson_why_you_have_to_fight_postmodernism.html Thanks to Tim Hains for that.
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