Jordan B Peterson

About this original series

Maps of Meaning is a production of TV Ontario (Canadian Public Television). This thirteen part series (with an additional introductory video, There's No Such Thing as a Dragon) deals with mythology, religion, psychology, neuroscience and human conflict. It was originally broadcast in 2004. Dr. Jordan B Peterson, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, lectures. The show was produced by Wodek Szemberg and David Smillie and edited by Ian Partridge and Doug Beavan. The lectures are based on the book Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (www.mapsofmeaning.com)

  • Category

    Learning

  • # Episodes

    17 episodes

  • Rating

    TV-UN

Episodes of Jordan B Peterson

    • Play Virtue as a Necessity - Jordan B Peterson on Blip Jordan B Peterson episodes on Blip

      Virtue as a Necessity

      Virtue is generally regarded merely as a moral obligation, and an obligation to other people. Instead, virtue is precisely that path of life that justifies the suffering that is a necessary part of self-conscious individual being. ;

      • Release date
        Jan 22, 2011
      • Runtime
        51:05
    • Play Maps of Meaning 3: Becoming Like Gods - Jordan B Peterson on Blip Jordan B Peterson episodes on Blip

      Maps of Meaning 3: Becoming Like Gods

      This half hour video from the University of Toronto was broadcast on TV Ontario (Canadian Public Television) in 2004, as the 2nd of a 13-part series dealing with mythology and neuroscience. It is based on the book, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (www. mapsofmeaning.com). Theme: The gods represent psychological factors, such as love or sexuality (Venus) or aggression (Ares or Mars). The idea of a single, ultimate god represents the integrated totality of all such psychological fact...

      • Release date
        Nov 11, 2010
      • Runtime
        28:28
    • Play The Meaning of Music - Jordan B Peterson on Blip Jordan B Peterson episodes on Blip

      The Meaning of Music

      The world of experience is composed of patterns, and patterns within patterns. Human adaptation is a matter of adapting the patterns of the body and mind to the patterns of the world. Music models these patterns, and provides the listener with an intimation of ultimate harmony and meaning.

      • Release date
        Apr 16, 2010
      • Runtime
        50:17
    • Play Evil and Tragedy - Jordan B Peterson on Blip Jordan B Peterson episodes on Blip

      Evil and Tragedy

      It is important to make a distinction between evil and tragedy. An evil act is a human act, aimed at harm for harm's sake. The capacity to act in an evil manner depends on self-consciousness: if I know how I can be hurt, I know how to hurt others. Evil destroys the individual's faith in human nature. Tragedy, by contrast, is an inevitable consequence of human vulnerability. Tragic circumstances are destructive, but not motivated. Human beings can withstand tragedy, but can be undermined by evil.

      • Release date
        Apr 15, 2010
      • Runtime
        42:36
    • Play There's No Such Thing as a Dragon - Jordan B Peterson on Blip Jordan B Peterson episodes on Blip

      There's No Such Thing as a Dragon

      This one hour video from the University of Toronto was broadcast on TV Ontario (Canadian Public Television) in 2004, as the introduction to a 13-part series dealing with mythology and neuroscience. It is based on the book, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (www. mapsofmeaning.com).Theme: This video deals with a children's book, There's No Such Thing as a Dragon (Jack Kent), that has a perfect mythological or religious substructure. The story is technically very simple, but also very ...

      • Release date
        May 29, 2007
      • Runtime
        01:00:02
    • Play Maps of Meaning 1: Monsters of Our Own Making - Jordan B Peterson on Blip Jordan B Peterson episodes on Blip

      Maps of Meaning 1: Monsters of Our Own Making

      This half hour video was broadcast on TV Ontario (Canadian Public Television) in 2004, as the first of a 13-part series dealing with mythology and neuroscience. It is based on the book, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief.Theme: The rise of rationality and the scientific method posed a significant challenge to the religious worldview, but in its place rose ideological systems of true horror, led by resentful and arrogant tyrants such as Mao Tse-Tung, Stalin and Hitler. The demolition o...

      • Release date
        May 29, 2007
      • Runtime
        28:52
    • Play Maps of Meaning 2: Contending with Chaos - Jordan B Peterson on Blip Jordan B Peterson episodes on Blip

      Maps of Meaning 2: Contending with Chaos

      This half hour video from the University of Toronto was broadcast on TV Ontario (Canadian Public Television) in 2004, as the 2nd of a 13-part series dealing with mythology and neuroscience. It is based on the book, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (www. mapsofmeaning.com).Theme: Traditional theories of moral attitude and behavior, encoded in religion and mythology, posit that the world of human experience is composed of chaos and order, and that the human psyche mediates between the...

      • Release date
        May 29, 2007
      • Runtime
        28:38
    • Play Maps of Meaning 4: Games People Must Play - Jordan B Peterson on Blip Jordan B Peterson episodes on Blip

      Maps of Meaning 4: Games People Must Play

      This half hour video from the University of Toronto was broadcast on TV Ontario (Canadian Public Television) in 2004, as the 2nd of a 13-part series dealing with mythology and neuroscience. It is based on the book, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (www. mapsofmeaning.com).Theme: The ideas encoded in religion and mythology emerged from the bottom up, not from the top down. This means they were not planned or abstractly conceptualized, in their initial forms. Instead, religious ideas ...

      • Release date
        May 29, 2007
      • Runtime
        28:04
    • Play Maps of Meaning 5: Grappling with Fear - Jordan B Peterson on Blip Jordan B Peterson episodes on Blip

      Maps of Meaning 5: Grappling with Fear

      This half hour video from the University of Toronto was broadcast on TV Ontario (Canadian Public Television) in 2004, as the 5th of a 13-part series dealing with mythology and neuroscience. It is based on the book, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (www. mapsofmeaning.com).Theme: The chaos out of which the world is generated is first encountered during contact with the anomalous, unknown, misunderstood or threatening. Things that are not understood are dangerous and vague. Retreat fr...

      • Release date
        May 29, 2007
      • Runtime
        28:33
    • Play Maps of Meaning 6: Submitting to Order - Jordan B Peterson on Blip Jordan B Peterson episodes on Blip

      Maps of Meaning 6: Submitting to Order

      This half hour video from the University of Toronto was broadcast on TV Ontario (Canadian Public Television) in 2004, as the 6th of a 13-part series dealing with mythology and neuroscience. It is based on the book, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (www. mapsofmeaning.com).Theme: Order is the antithesis of chaos. The domain of order is the domain of culture, of the previously explored and understood. Order inhibits fear, and aids in the establishment of harmonious relations between p...

      • Release date
        May 29, 2007
      • Runtime
        28:05
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