For my lament about political-correctness zealotry in American politics in the 2016 presidential election, see my OEN article "Will the 'Political Correctness' Crowd Ever Change Their Tune?" (dated April 25, 2017):
More recently, in my OEN tribute dated October 16, 2019, to the late American literary critic Harold Bloom (1930-2019), I said that I admire his courage for criticizing the political-correctness zealotry in the so-called canon wars in literary studies. In his laments about what he refers to as the School of Resentment, he has denigrated its "cant" (his term).
Professor Peterson includes post-modernist trends of thought that he associates with certain people in Yale's English Department in his multi-directional critiques of political correctness. However, as I note in my OEN tribute, Yale's literary critic Professor Bloom effectively and succinctly counters certain post-modernist claims about literary works. In my estimate, Professor Bloom's repeated critiques of certain trends of thought in academia are better informed and more cogent than Professor Peterson's critiques of those same trends of thought.
Professor Peterson, in his multi-directional critiques of political correctness zealotry, also includes advocates of human agency in bringing about climate change. However, for the record, I do not agree with Professor Peterson's critique of climate change. On the contrary, I agree with Pope Francis' 2015 eco-encyclical. The pope's widely read eco-encyclical is far more intellectually sophisticated than Professor Peterson's critique of climate change.
Nevertheless, I hasten to add that I do not agree with the Roman Catholic Church's unreasonable opposition to legalized abortion in the first trimester or to certain other church positions that Pope Francis supports. Regarding the pope's doctrinal conservatism, see my OEN article "Pope Francis on Evil and Satan" (dated March 24, 2019):
Regarding legalized abortion in the first trimester, I agree with the position articulated by the American philosophy professor James H. Fetzer, using deontological moral theory, in his 2007 book Render Unto Darwin: Philosophical Aspects of the Christian Right's Crusade Against Science (Open Court, pages 95-120).
OVERVIEW OF THE FOLLOWING ESSAY
The following essay unfolds in eight further subsections with the nine further subheadings: (2) Professor Peterson's 2018 Self-Help Book; (3) C. G. Jung's Thought; (4) Walter J. Ong's Thought; (5) Robert L. Moore's Thought; (6) Donald Trump and His Most Ardent Supporters; (7) Pope Francis and His American Catholic Critics; (8) Bernard Lonergan's Thought; (9) Conclusion.
I explain my thoughts to the best of my ability as I go. However, I admit that at times I am a bit wordy in my effort to explain certain points as meticulously as I can.
I discuss both Donald Trump and Pope Francis in some detail to illustrate certain points about Professor Moore's account of the masculine and feminine archetypes of maturity. I have previously published numerous OEN articles about each of them separately and one OEN article about both of them together: "The Different Charisma Styles of Pope Francis and President Trump" (dated September 7, 2019):
I also discuss both Yale's literary critic Harold Professor Bloom, on the one hand, and, on the other, the Canadian Jesuit philosopher and theologian Bernard Lonergan as providing alternative ways to respond to the deconstructionists in Yale's English Department denounced by Professor Peterson.
For a succinct but well-informed summary of deconstruction, see Christopher Norris' entry "Deconstruction" in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences, edited by Patrick Colm Hogan (Cambridge University Press, 2011, pages 244-247).
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