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Jordan Peterson: Nietzsche, Hitler, God, Psychopathy, Suffering & Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #448

Jordan Peterson: Nietzsche, Hitler, God, Psychopathy, Suffering & Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #448

Recommended on this episode

BookRecommendedISBN verified

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Nietzsche

“a stunning book”
“I did that lecture series is on the first half of Beyond Good and Evil which is a stunning book”— Jordan Peterson
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The User Illusion

Tor Nørretranders (inferred)

“the best book on Consciousness that I ever read”
“there's a good book called the user illusion which is the best book on Consciousness that I ever read”— Jordan Peterson
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A Billion Wicked Thoughts

Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam (inferred)

“which I really like it's a very good book”
“they wrote a great book called a billion Wicked thoughts which I really like it's a very good book and it's Engineers as psychologists”— Jordan Peterson
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Angela's Ashes

Frank McCourt

“fantastic book beautiful book”
“I read a a book called Angela's Ashes that was written by an Irish author Frank mccort fantastic book beautiful book”— Jordan Peterson
MediaRecommended

Crumb

Terry Zwigoff (inferred)

“the most brilliant documentary I've ever seen”
“there's a documentary I watch from time to time which I think is the most brilliant documentary I've ever seen it's called crumb”— Jordan Peterson

The guest's own work

BookBy the guestISBN verified

We Who Wrestle with God

Jordan Peterson

“I used this book called The Sacred and the profane quite extensively in a book that I'm releasing in mid November we who wrestle with God”— Jordan Peterson

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

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The Sacred and the Profane

Mircea Eliade

“I used this book called The Sacred and the profane quite extensively in a book that I'm releasing in mid November”— Jordan Peterson
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche

“the idea he first introduced And Thus Spoke zaratustra of the Uber mench yeah that's another one that's very easy to misinterpret”— Lex Fridman
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The Will to Power

Friedrich Nietzsche

“he believe that one of those manifestations would be that of communism and that that would kill he said this in Will To Power”— Jordan Peterson
BookReferenced

Demons

Fyodor Dostoevsky

“and dovi did the same thing in his book the demons so this is the thing that the a religious have to contend with”— Jordan Peterson
BookReferenced

Notes from Underground

Fyodor Dostoevsky

“the same reason in Notes from Underground dovi made a very telling observation so he speaks in the voice of a cynical nihilistic and bitter bureaucrat”— Jordan Peterson
MediaReferenced

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Milos Forman (inferred)

“it it made uh One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest look like a romantic comedy”— Jordan Peterson
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The Hobbit

J.R.R. Tolkien

“so Bilbo The Hobbit he's kind of an ordinary every man he lives in a very constrained and orderly and secure world”— Jordan Peterson