Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

Here's why.

200 years ago, something like that,

A Scottish philosopher named David Hume put forward a very famous proposition, which was that you couldn't derive an ought from an is, which meant something like, no matter how many facts you aggregated around you, you couldn't use those facts as an unerring guide as to where you should go.

So imagine this.

Imagine that you're dropped in the ocean.

And you're trying to determine which way to swim.

There's no set of facts at your disposal that is going to map that territory for you.

The same is true if you're lost in an expansive desert.

The geography itself will not signify to you your destination.

Now, why is that?

What is the problem?

It seems like it's one of something approximating volume.

The facts can't guide you because there's an infinite number of them.

And if you rank order and prioritize them, you're not in the domain of facts.

You're in the domain of value.

So, and you do this.

The perceptual scientists figured this out too.

You do this every time you take a glance.

So, and this is so interesting, because the empiricists say, well, you just look at the world and there are the facts.

But the perceptual scientists say, no, you can't even look at the world without looking at the world through a lens of value.