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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