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Dec 2020

1h 44m

148. Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard ...

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

About this episode

In this lecture, 11th in the 2017 series, I discuss the giants of existentialism, a philosophically-grounded psychological position positing (1) that psychopathology or mental illness/distress is built into Being itself and (2) that the adoption of responsibility through action is the appropriate response.

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