Source Entry 3, What makes a Psychopath? By Jordan Peterson
MLA Citation:
Peterson, Jordan. “What Makes a Psychopath? – Jordan Peterson.” YouTube, 14 Feb. 2020, youtu.be/Nzp5Ogkqo5g?si=p0Kh_5FTT7OZxyrK. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
Summary
This video is a lecture titled “What makes a psychopath?” by Jordan Peterson. In this lecture, Jordan Peterson talks about the mental state of psychopaths and how they view the world in their way of thinking. Peterson states that Psychopaths are “Possessed by sheer malevolence,” and when given a reason to exact harm on an individual they’ll act on it. He says that to get out of their malevolent ways they have to “create a very sophisticated sense of good and evil to get out of it.”
Rhetorical analysis
The genre of the video “What makes a psychopath” is a motivational lecture. Jordan Peterson is a renowned psychologist, author, and online educator. His bestselling books, including “12 Rules for Life” and “Beyond Order,” He uses the rhetorical appeal of ethos by using real-world examples to relate to the audience’s day to day lives and engage them more in his lecture.
Notable Quotes
- possessed by sheer malevolence
- create a very sophisticated sense of good and evil to get out of it.
