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148. Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard (Existentialism)

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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A Critique of Utopianism

This is a criticism of utopianism. That's what he's trying to do, right? Cause the utopian ideas were starting to emerge in russia at about this point,. The idea that you could reorganize society so that material privation would disappear. While dostoyevsky was no fool. He knew perfectly well a that that was never going to happen. But even more importantly, that if you gave people exactly what they wanted, even what they needed, there's no reason whatsoever to presume that that would make them any more sane than than they already are now. Ad and he takes that further, because he says, well, you can give people cake and and material goods until

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