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ISSUE: The Nature of Evil

WE RAN THE FOLLOWING PROGRAM TO ADDRESS IT:
Jordan Peterson Lecture on the Nature of Evil

DATE: Saturday, January 17, 2008
TIME: 20:25
DURATION: 00:30

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PROGRAM:
His name is Jordan Peterson and he’s a University of Toronto Professor of Psychology and he discusses the nature of evil and its distinction from tragedy in this lecture presented at the 2008 Conference on Personal Meaning.

If you missed any part of it - I had to cut it off ten minutes before the end - you can catch it again with video -

http://www.tvo.org/TVO/WebObjects/TVO.woa?video?BI_Full_20081213_834110_JordanPeterson

He also wrote a book out on Routlege called "Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief""

http://www.routledge.com/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?sku=&isbn=0415922224&parent_id=&pc=

He has a 14-part television series on Maps of Meaning at:

http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/peterson/MOM/TVseries.htm

And here is some biographical information I found on him. He’s a clinical psychologist by background -

Biographical Information

I am a clinical psychologist, licensed in Massachusetts and Ontario, and see clients on a relatively regular basis. I am a professor at the University of Toronto, and have been since 1998. Before that, I was a professor at Harvard University, from 1993-1998. I completed my graduate and post-doctoral work at McGill University, under the supervision of Dr. Robert O. Pihl, studying alcoholism and aggression. I am currently interested in the formal assessment and theoretical nature of self-deception, construing it as voluntary failure of exploration rather than as repression (although both mechanisms appear to obtain), and also do experimental work on creativity, achievement, personality, narrative and motivation. I published a book, Maps of Meaning, in 1999.

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Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto completed the manuscript to this book just before her assassination in December 2007 at the age of 54. This book gives context to her recent martyrdom. It is also a plea to the West to mend our ways.  

Only two months earlier upon her return to Pakistan as the figurehead of the Pakistan People’s Party, terrorists bombed her homecoming procession and the armored truck she rode on. She survived, but 134 died and over 400 were wounded. Under the shadow of this massacre, she knows she writes on borrowed time.

The first section of the book is in defense of the Koran. She argues that it is a book that embraces plurality and democracy and even equal rights for women. The second section is a history lesson, a country by country breakdown of Western intervention in the Middle East, parallax to the political record told in the West by our leaders. She also traces the historical roots of the Suuni and Shiite conflict. The third section is more theoretical. She argues that the "Clash of Civilizations" between West and Middle East is not inevitable.

The book is well-writen and clear in its arguments. Bhutto, a graduate of both Harvard and Oxford, a former debate champion and a lawyer(1),was an accomplished writer.  She would have been the tipping point in the United States war in Iraq which is now hamstrung by Pakistan.

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1. http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/19/arts/bookmer.php

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Saturday night before my radio show, a good friend crucified my evening with a noisy public scene peppered with the F-word, a religious slur, and stomp-stomp-stomping back and forth. My initial response, “Huh?” could not save me from the black cloud his flatulent mood left behind.

After my show, I was angry and depressed and decided to just stay up at the station to watch Maki, our engineer, gut the transmitter room which was filled with gear from 20-years of someone else’ pack rat habits, vacuum it, build a wall of new steel shelving units, and then put everything back dust free to approximate a kind of grocery store logic.

He even found the reel-to-reel tape machine which I started looking for several years ago.

This went on into Sunday day, until about an hour before the LMU Alumni Barbeque and KXLU 50th Anniversary and Reunion Party when folks would tour the station.

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Air Date: Saturday, June 03, 2006
Time of Day: 2000 to 2100
Duration: 60:00

Program Title: Robert Hass Reading

Issue: N/A

Misc.: From the Lunch Poems series at UC Berkeley.

Robert Hass Bio from http://clinton2.nara.gov/Initiatives/Millennium/hass.html

ROBERT HASS is a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley and served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress from 1995 to 1997. During his tenure as Poet Laureate, Professor Hass battled illiteracy by putting into action his belief that, “Imagination makes communities.” Of his passion for promoting iteracy, he explains that, “when I got the (Laureate) job I did a lot of reading about literacy…One of the things that struck me was just how powerful a presence poetry has been in our culture when we were, as a people, teaching ourselves to read. At the beginning of the 19th century, less than 60% of American males could write their name, and that was far higher than in most of Europe. If you were black, you could get killed for reading. But we made literacy a civic religion from the idea that you couldn’t have a democracy without it, and we taught a whole people to read. It’s one of the great achievements of the American democratic experiment — and one of the indicators of the hunger for literacy, was a taste for poetry.”

As Poet Laureate, he also sponsored a weeklong celebration of American nature writing called “Watershed.” His commitment to environmental issues led him to found the River of Words poetry contest which is run through the International Rivers Network.

Born in San Francisco in 1941, Professor Hass remembers as a child happening on a poem which, “made me understand what the word `swoon’ meant…It was the first physical sensation of the truthfulness of a thing that I had ever felt.” He went on to earn his bachelor’s degree from St. Mary’s College, Moraga, California and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University. While beginning his teaching career, he entered the Yale Younger Poets competition and won it for his first book, Field Guide. He has also published Praise (1979) for which he won the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America, Human Wishes (1989) which won the Commonwealth Club of California Medal for Poetry, and Sun Under Wood (1996) for which he won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry.

Professor Hass has also won acclaim for his work in translation and editing, including his work with poet Czeslaw Milosz which won two PEN/BABRA Translation Awards. He edited and translated The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa and wrote a collection of essays, Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry (1984) which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Among his many honors, one which is especially meaningful is having been named Educator of the Year by the North American Association for Environmental Education in 1996 for his work on the River of Words project. Thousands of schoolchildren participate in the program which helps students learn their watershed and their ecological address.

Mr. Hass lives in the Bay Area with his wife, poet Brenda Hillman. They have four children.