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148. Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard (Existentialism)

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Existentialists' Point of View on Rationality

The existentialists are correct about that. To deny rationality as the fundamental principle of orientation, that doesn't mean that irrationality is the right approach. It means that rationality has to be augmented by other elements of being, elements of subjective being. That's akin to the psychoanalytic viewpoint too, that you have to integrate your drives and emotions, especially anger, sexuality, into your personality. So it's a similar idea. O k. No going to read you some things from some of the people that i described, and will take them apart a little bit. Things i've been collecting for a long period of time. And i called them prophets of the dawning age kir

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