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142. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Existentialism)

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Importance of Personality Psychology in the Twenty-First Century

Economics, in the final analysis, ends up being a shallow explanation. And then even if people do fight for economic reasons, which means fighting for things that they value, it isn't exactly clear why people value what they value. Kasonitzen is not generally regarded as a personality psychologist, but he's the one who lays out the connection between the existential failure of the individual and the mass catastrophes of society. To me, that's too important a link to overlook. And it also strikes me that it's the primary lesson of the twentieth century....

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