Welcome to the Jordan B. Peterson podcast. I'm Michaela Peterson. This is episode 37 of season 3 titled

existentialism Nietzsche Dostoyevsky and Kirchegard.

In this lecture, 11th in the 2017 series, Dad discusses the giants of existentialism, a

philosophically grounded psychological position,

positing one that psychopathology or mental illness slash distress is built into being itself

that would come from somebody in my family. And two, that the adoption of responsibility

through action is the appropriate response. I shouldn't make bad jokes on this, but I do.

Happy early Mary Christmas, everyone. A couple of updates. If you'd like to check out the self-authoring program,

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The second update, if you have purchased or pre-ordered his book Beyond Order,

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because the book isn't shipping out until March.

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