The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

The Great Sacrifice: Abraham and Isaac

Sep 7, 2017

02:34:16

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Hypercrit Critical Thinking

05:19

Abraham's Contract With God Is a Contract That Will Work Out Positively

04:13

What Is the Meaning of the Law of Attraction?

06:00

Introduction

5min

The Importance of a Child

3min

The Story of the Son of Hagar

3min

Abraham's Contract With God Is a Contract That Will Work Out Positively

4min

Dostoyevsky's the Brothers Kramazov

3min

Isaiach's Cell Will I Make a Nation?

5min

The Story of Hagar

2min

What Constitutes Proper Worship?

4min

What Can You Do About It?

5min

10.

The Story of Paradise and the Fall

2min

11.

The Idea of Sacrifice

2min

12.

Delay of Gratification

3min

13.

Sacrifice of Work - The Ultimate Extension of the Logic of Work

4min

14.

Mammoths and the Social Contract

5min

15.

What's the Greatest Possible Sacrifice?

4min

16.

The Crucifixion of Mary and the Crucifixions of Christ

4min

17.

Abraham's Son, a Lamb for a Burnt Offering

2min

18.

The Good Mother Fails

4min

19.

The Purpose of Thinking Is to Let Your Thoughts Die Instead of You

4min

20.

Why We Don't Make Sacrifices

3min

21.

Abraham's Son, Thy Only Son, Has Not Withheld From Me

3min

22.

What Is the Meaning of the Law of Attraction?

6min

23.

The Cane and Abel Story

3min

24.

The Gulag Archipelago

3min

25.

I've Been Wrong All Along, Can I Possibly Now Straighten Myself Out?

4min

26.

The Importance of Taking the Sins of Mankind Unto Yourself

3min

27.

The Key to the Prevention of the Horrors of Ashwitz and the Guleg

4min

28.

Abrahammock Stories - 12 Part Series - Ends With Sarah's Death

2min

29.

You Know, It's a Dialogue

3min

30.

Are You a Fool or an Impostor?

3min

31.

Hypercrit Critical Thinking

5min

32.

Isn't It a Good Idea to Negate the Heroic Ideal

5min

33.

The Importance of Facilitating Student Success

3min

34.

The Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories

5min

35.

Psychodelics

2min

36.

Is the Sermon a Preacher?

2min

37.

Are You a Preacher?

3min

38.

Dostoevsky's the Possession or the Devil's

4min

39.

What's the Alternative?

3min

40.

The Way Forward Through the Eological Mass

5min

41.

How Do You Predict Self Esteem?

6min

42.

The Floor's Yours

5min

43.

You Told Us You Wanted More Data for Your Money. We Heard.

1min

Lecture 12 in the Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories series In this, the final lecture of the Summer 2017 12-part series The Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories, we encounter, first, Hagar's banishment to the desert with Ishmael and then the demand made by God to Abraham for the sacrifice of Isaac. To sacrifice now is to gain later: perhaps the greatest of human discoveries. What, then, should best be sacrificed? And what might be the greatest gain?