 mid-lecture: 'And you might say, 'Well, we don't need a superordinate ethic to unite us'. And I would say, 'OK, then we're not united. And so what are we if we're not united? That's the Hobbesian nightmare, right?'' He goes on: 'That's the death of God. That's the rise of nihilism. That's the emergence of a corrosive and destabilising and deep cynicism. And it's the death of joy and enthusiasm.' Listening to him are students and teachers from Ralston College, the newly launched university of which Peterson is chancellor. Dedicated to challenging orthodox thinking and prizing free speech, it is based between a campus in Savannah, Georgia, in the US, and the Greek island of Samos. I am here, too, as the first invited member of the media to be allowed to see what the college is all about, and attend an exclusive lecture about Peterson's much-anticipated new book We Who Wrestle With God.Ever since its formation was announced, there has been intense global curiosity about how Ralston would work, what would be on the curriculum and who would want to attend. Peterson, 60, is possibly the world's most notorious academic. A once-obscure Canadian psychologist, since 2016 he has achieved fame through stoking controversy; he has claimed white privilege doesn't exist and that feminists have 'an unconscious wish for brutal male domination'. He has also attracted millions of fans across the world, particularly young males, since publishing, in 2018, 12 Rules for Life, a Nietzschean self-care book for millennials, with nuggets of advice that include one to 'stand up straight'.Moreover, when many universities are struggling to make ends meet, who on earth would open a new one? I have come to find){kind=link}
By looking to ancient history to save tomorrow, Ralston College has bold ambitions – and could start a movement
Prof Jordan Peterson, author, academic and scourge of the liberal-Left, is standing on the steps of the 2,000-year-old Library of Celsus, in the ancient Greek city of Ephesus (now in modern-day Turkey) mid-lecture: “And you might say, ‘Well, we don’t need a superordinate ethic to unite us’. And I would say, ‘OK, then we’re not united. And so what are we if we’re not united? That’s the Hobbesian nightmare, right?’ ” He goes on: “That’s the death of God. That’s the rise of nihilism. That’s the emergence of a corrosive and destabilising and deep cynicism. And it’s the death of joy and enthusiasm.”
Listening to him are students and teachers from Ralston College, the newly launched university of which Peterson is chancellor. Dedicated to challenging orthodox thinking and prizing free speech, it is based between a campus in Savannah, Georgia, in the US, and the Greek island of Samos. I am here, too, as the first invited member of the media to be allowed to see what the college is all about, and attend an exclusive lecture about Peterson’s much-anticipated new book We Who Wrestle With God.
Ever since its formation was announced, there has been intense global curiosity about how Ralston would work, what would be on the curriculum and who would want to attend. Peterson, 60, is possibly the world’s most notorious academic. A once-obscure Canadian psychologist, since 2016 he has achieved fame through stoking controversy; he has claimed white privilege doesn’t exist and that feminists have “an unconscious wish for brutal male domination”. He has also attracted millions of fans across the world, particularly young males, since publishing, in 2018, 12 Rules for Life, a Nietzschean self-care book for millennials, with nuggets of advice that include one to “stand up straight”.
Moreover, when many universities are struggling to make ends meet, who on earth would open a new one? I have come to find out.