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#227 – Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning
Lex Fridman Podcast
What Is Nihilism?
Sartre is the philosopher of radical freedom. If we were radically free, we really would be like God in the traditional medieval sense, and not sort of these folks who start with the idea that there's a kind of limit point that we're not going to reach. So can you maybe comment on what is nihilism and is it at all a useful other group of ideas that you resist against in defining existentialism? Yes, good Excellent. Nietzsche is writing in the end of the 19th century. In various places where he published things, but largely in his unpublished works, he identifies the condition of the modern world as 'nihilistic' And Herbie Hancock tells an incredible story
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