loving your neighbour as yourself.” The first lesson was th… - Jordan Peterson

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loving your neighbour as yourself.” The first lesson was that neither of these statements has anything to do with being nice. The second was that both are equations, rather than injunctions. If I am someone’s friend, family member, or lover, then I am morally obliged to bargain as hard on my own behalf as they are on theirs. If I fail to do so, I will end up a slave, and the other person a tyrant. What good is that?

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12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos · January 23, 2018 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Jordan Bernt Peterson (born June 12, 1962) is a Canadian clinical psychologist at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (1999), 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (2017), Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life (2021) and We Who Wrestle With God (2024)

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Alternative Names: Dr Jordan B Peterson • Jordan B Peterson • Jordan Bernt Peterson • Jordan B. Peterson • Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

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