Gregg Henriques on Jordan Peterson and Justification Systems

John Vervaeke introduced me to Gregg Henriques. Gregg is a clinician and a full professor at James Madison University. 

Email:                                                    henriqgx@jmu.edu;        

Home page:                                        https://www.gregghenriques.com/

Unified Theory of Knowledge:    https://www.unifiedtheoryofknowledge.org/

Father had a Billy Graham conversion experience
Father was a history prof

Raised with a dawkins vent empriricism

Hour outside of DC

Really like talking to people about what mattered

In the academy his whole life, a blue church

Blue church believer as an undergrad

Woke up into feminism, 

North Carolina Charlotte, Clinical community psychology

Coherantist in terms of his disposition. Music rather than noise

Theoretical structure is the mediating function

Theory is the conduit between empiricle findins and practice

What is the theoretical structure of psychology at the 

Evolutionary psychology

Tree of knowledge, Tree of knowledge, we can develop a big picture theory of psychology

Garden philosophy

Fundamentally new set of conversations about science, wisdom, spirituality

Jordan Peterson Biblical Series

Just before the Cathy Newman interview

JEDI: Justice Equity Diversity Inclusion

He's a deep clinician. He's also a theorist. He's an empirical researcher, understands the scientific method and anchored

Spiritual agnostic, his fundamental fascination why have these stories carried the impact they have carried? 

Conscious evolution awakening

Not up to the task of the problems and the nature of the world we're living in

Justification systems

The problem of psychology, the materialist flatland

Systems of Justification: network of propositions, is and ought, they give our lives certain meaning, we make sense of the world out of them. 

Rooted in our justification and cosmopolitan among the other justifications

Be pluralistic some, be open to the idea that there is some ultimate truth, 

Can we figure out a way to relate to each other with different justification systems, create a wisdom commons

We might not share the same ontology of the world

You go through different modes, as one person

Aliens

Integrated pluralism

Meta-values: are there things that we, universal moral values

Three meta-moral universal values: not the content of belief, what are sacred

Be that which enhances, dignity, wellbeing with integrity

Cosmopolitan globalist: United declaration of human rights 1948, 

What justifies law? The justification for law was that people had dignity. 

Fundamental dignity: confer to human beings fundamental dignity: abortion, euthanasia

Karl Rogers, Abraham Maslow, belong and esteem

Incremental dignity: did you live your best life today…

Valuing the human condition. Incrementally in relationship.

Well-being: Nested model of well-being. The elements that go into well-being and how to align them. The values of the evaluator. 

Kant: happiness with the worthiness to be happy

Aristotle: eudaimonia: reaching your virtuous potential. Making a positive difference in the world

Integrity: honor, soundness, coherence, honesty

Global way of being, a rooted way of being

Tracks the evolution of cultural consciousness, across 4 different sensibilities: Invite us to see if we can build a way of being that integrates these 4 sensibilities and honors them

 1. The oral/indigenous sensibility: they reflect a lot of what our nature is, 
 2. Traditional sensibility: a nation and a religion, traditional formal world views that bring civilizations together with an identity. How do we live. Judeo Christian version of reality. 
 3. Modernity: lots of value. Lots of ways of thinking.  What emerges from science, Modernity pushes the church back and spreads, everywhere. Nietzsche  this is going to be bad news when it comes to making values
 4. Post-modern critique of modernism, any scientific dogmatism that gets knocked off and critiqued. 

People have no idea of what their system of justification is. 

Is there a stance we can relate to our systems of justification. Feel them and know we need them and step outside of them. 

If we get the right frame on it we can abstract the wisdom from these traditions. Feel relationally connected. 

The traditional mode of operating. Wisdom traditions from the Axial age. 

Post-modern critique that warrants. You can take those four sensibilities. Might there be a way of making sense. 

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