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148. Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard (Existentialism)

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Is Fire Dangerous?

The idea is that there's more to you than you know, and the way you call it out is by challenging yourself voluntarily in as many directions as you can manage. It isn't something artificial like defence against death anxiety. It's actually how you learn to cope in the world. The existentialists, i would say, despite their exceptional pessimism, we're in some sense unbelievably optimistic. We are up against an opponent, so to speak, a social opponents, which would be the crushing weight of society, and a natural opponent, that is nature, which overwhelms you. But if we face that opponent, or that series of opponents, then all sorts of possibilities manifest selves inside of

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