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#227 – Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is Existentialism Different From Nihilism?
Existentialism is the idea that it's through living your life that you become who you are. In Sartre, this means in a certain way you're the ground of your own being. But to him it's terrifying not liberating in the positive meaning of the word liberating. It takes a very courageous individual to be liberated by it. And he says there is a criticism that you can make of yourself or of others.
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