Quote of the Day, No. 48

... those who existed during the distant time in which the fundamental epics of our culture emerged were much more concerned with the actions that dictated survival that with anything approximating what we now understand as objective truth. Before the dawn of the scientific world view, reality was construed differently.

Jordan B. Peterson: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

As anyone who has ever read the great Greek, Roman, or Chinese philosophers knows, as anyone who is familiar with the great Christian theologians and philosophers of the Middle Ages will recognize, it is massively false to assert that objective truth was invented circa 1518 AD, or that reality was construed differently before then. This leads the critical reader to wonder who, or what, could possibly be the source for this astonishingly incorrect claim.

Why, it is Jordan Peterson himself. The endnote on the page literally cites one J.B. Peterson.

I outlined this in some detail in Peterson, J.B. (1999). Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief. Routledge, New York. 

This is a remarkable hall of mirrors that Peterson is building around himself. He goes the New Atheists one better. Whereas Richard Dawkins liked nothing better that to quote Daniel Dennett quoting Richard Dawkins, and to praise a Sam Harris book chock full of quotes from Richard Dawkins, Peterson simply cuts out the middle man and appeals directly to himself as the relevant authority on the nature of reality.

T.R. Beale, aka Vox Day: Jordanetics