Podcasts that mention 📚 Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you look at the conditions of life, especially when things are not going well for you, you could easily proclaim, like the antinatalists do, that life is so bloody miserable in its essence that it would be better if it didn't exist at all. That's Mephistopheles, by the way, in Goethe's Faust.

Dr. Peterson refers to 'Goethe's Faust' to illustrate the antinatalist perspective that life can be fundamentally miserable, akin to the character Mephistopheles in the play.

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