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148. Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard (Existentialism)

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Existential Question

Existentialism is an analysis of a certain characteristic of human experience. There was an immense span of time in which you could have been born, but weren't born. And there's something tremendously arbitrary about that. It's as if you were thrown into experience. So the question is, for the existentialists, how do you deal with that?

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