PETERSON vs HARRIS (series of tweets to dr. jordan peterson) 1 – You can’t succe

PETERSON vs HARRIS

(series of tweets to dr. jordan peterson)

1 – You can’t succeed by conflating good and true in argument(identity), only in literature (analogy).

2 – Western civ is unique in the use of deflationary truth and it’s why we innovate so rapidly.

3 – So when you attempt to conflate the good and the true in argument, you are violating western ethics.

4 – We transfer MEANING and POTENTIAL by analogy and conflation, but TRUTH and LIMITS by deflation

5 – Your best line of argument is that truth (science) goodness(morality) and beauty are necessary …

6 – because truth (science) goodness(morality) and beauty are required for any preferential judgement.

7 – We are close now. Your discipline is PEDAGOGY, not TRUTH.

Leave truth to the analytics(decidability).

8 – Via Positiva: meaning, justification, and analogy. Via-Negativa: truth, criticism, and identity.

9 – Teachers convey meaning and increase opportunity. Judges decide differences and limit opportunity.

10 – Science is a juridical discipline: via-negativa. Literature a moral discipline: via-positiva.

11 – And the competition between positiva and negativa, not the justification provided by either, is how we have, and must, choose.

12 – The competition between positiva and negativa, not the justification provided by either provides with candidate actions.