Just spent over 2
hours watching this, and I completely enjoyed it. I would not except anyone to
be as nerdy as myself and waste 2 hours like this, not even in my wildest
dreams. But, I took some notes while watching that I do believe worth sharing.
1- "To close
the loop on that: the only reason why I would focus on religion- in particular
there, is that religion is the only language game where in dogmatism is not a
pejorative concept. Dogma is a good word, specifically within religion, and the
notion that you must believe things on faith, that is in the absence of
compelling evidence, that would otherwise cause a rational person to believe
it- you know. Religious context is considered a feature- not a bug elsewhere we
recognize it to be a bug ,and that’s that’s why there’s the unique focus on
religion." - Sam Harris
2- "The process
of free speech is the process by which dogmatic errors are rectified, and so it
has to be put at the pinnacle of the hierarchy of values." - Jordan Peterson
3-PETERSON : It
was Christians who were at the forefront of the movement to abolish slavery, in
England.
HARRIS : There are Christians on either side of
everything.
There’s no one else
to do the job !
PETERSON : But, it was specifically Christians,
who were using
their Christian
belief as a justification for eradicating slavery.
HARRIS :Yes. But, the problem was they were
actually on the losing side of a theological argument, and it would be much better-
I think you would agree- if one of the Ten Commandments had been don’t keep
slaves. There’s certainly one we could swap out for that one. And- so that way-
it would’ve been much easier for Christians to have fought against slavery, and
it’s much harder for Muslims, frankly, to fight against it now. The problem is
that, there’s a point I made, I think, in my first book: the doors leading
out of this kind of fundamentalism don’t open from the inside- they get bashed
open from the outside. And it’s humanism, and it’s secularism, and it’s scientific
rationality, that has exerted such pressure.
4- "My point is we should be able to agree that having a
world view- guided by a continuous, honest engagement
with reality, and so far as we can apprehend it, is
better than having a world view solidified, or
anchored to unchanging ideas that were born of people
who had none of our present tools- none of our
present insights
into anything." - Sam Harris
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