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Jordan Peterson: belief

11 Oct 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #448 – Jordan Peterson: Nietzsche, Hitler, God, Psychopathy, Suffering & Meaning

“I think Nietzsche had that because he was very ill. And so I suspect he had… And he was regarded by the inhabitants of the village that he lived in, near the end of his life, as something approximating a saint.”

— Jordan Peterson

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Jordan Peterson
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belief
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11 Oct 2024
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Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Yeah. I think Nietzsche had that because he was very ill. And so I suspect he had… And he was regarded by the inhabitants of the village that he lived in, near the end of his life, as something approximating a saint. He apparently conducted himself very admirably despite all his suffering. But that still, there’s this tension, as there is in much of Nietzsche’s work, between the miracle of the mundane, appreciating the miracle of the mundane versus fearing the tyranny of the mediocre.…

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