Interesting how Peterson moves towards certainty about the external world — Logos and order. Personally I have experienced psychosis with a lot of archetypal material: angels and visions of clouds parting in the night sky over the ocean. I have seen some videos where he talks about shamanism. I am reading Fitche at the moment and clearly the world is ordered but hell also exists. Somehow I feel like philosophy falls short on this where perhaps poetry and mystics describes heaven and hell better? Philosophy, in its classical sense, is built around clarity, reason and order. That makes it brilliant at describing structure (logos, law, being, substance…) but often difficult when it comes to chaos and rupture.
German idealism gave us the dialectical drive to totality. One can trace a heritage from Romantic explorations of inner abyss and “night side of reason” to the modern idea of the unconscious and in Faust’s bargain, we see the dream of progress (science, technology, industry) bound up with demonic undertones.
Interesting how Peterson moves towards certainty about the external world — Logos and order. Personally I have experienced psychosis with a lot of archetypal material: angels and visions of clouds parting in the night sky over the ocean. I have seen some videos where he talks about shamanism. I am reading Fitche at the moment and clearly the world is ordered but hell also exists. Somehow I feel like philosophy falls short on this where perhaps poetry and mystics describes heaven and hell better? Philosophy, in its classical sense, is built around clarity, reason and order. That makes it brilliant at describing structure (logos, law, being, substance…) but often difficult when it comes to chaos and rupture.
German idealism gave us the dialectical drive to totality. One can trace a heritage from Romantic explorations of inner abyss and “night side of reason” to the modern idea of the unconscious and in Faust’s bargain, we see the dream of progress (science, technology, industry) bound up with demonic undertones.