Podcasts that mention 📚 The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker, Ernest Becker

Um you know if you read uh the denial of death you learn about this. So as people get closer and closer to the end um their time perception changes.

Andrew Huberman mentions the book 'The Denial of Death' in the context of learning about how time perception changes as people approach the end of life.

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Ernest Becker talked about this in his book 'Denial of Death', stating that the fear of death is an important motivator in our lives.

During the conversation, John Vervaeke references 'Denial of Death' by Ernest Becker, highlighting how the fear of death serves as a significant motivator for human behavior. This mention is part of a broader discussion about the origins of the meaning crisis.

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First of all, I would say when I was in high school, I think my father actually encouraged me to read this book. I read Ernest Becker's 'Denial of Death,' which I found, and still find, to be one of the most profound works I’ve ever come across.

David Wolpe recalls that during high school, his father encouraged him to read Ernest Becker's 'Denial of Death,' a book he considers profoundly influential on his understanding of society and mortality.

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Ernest Becker—I'm not sure if you're familiar with the philosopher; he wrote the book 'Denial of Death'—his idea is that one of the core motivations of human beings is our terror of death.

In this segment, Lex Fridman discusses the book 'Denial of Death' authored by Ernest Becker, highlighting the notion that one of humanity's fundamental motivations stems from a deep-seated fear of death. This idea suggests a contrast between human fears and those of animals, such as cats, and contributes to a broader conversation around the essence of human nature.

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you know there's this wonderful book that had a great influence in me called the denial of death by ernest becker

Brian Greene mentions a book that had a great influence on him and names the author.

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there's a bunch of philosophers like Ernest Becker who kind of think that this realization of mortality and then fear sometimes they call it Terror of of of mortality is one of the creative forces behind Human Condition

Lex Fridman mentions Ernest Becker and his idea about the fear of mortality as a creative force, referencing his key work.

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even there there's opportunity to discover beauty now. and so it's that's that's the interesting thing about humans is the capacity to discover uh beautiful in the darkest of moments but there's always the dark parts too well i mean it's our situation is structurally difficult we are um actually no it is it's true we perceive socially we depend on each other for our sense of place and and perception of the world i mean we're dependent on each other and yet there's also a degree in which we're inevitably um we never really let each other down uh we are set up to be competitive as well as supportive i mean it's a it's just our fundamental situation is complicated and challenging and i wouldn't have it any other way okay let's talk about one of the most challenging things one of the things i unfortunately am very afraid of being human allegedly you wrote an essay on death and consciousness in which you write a note certainly the fear of death has been one of the greatest driving forces in the history of thought and in the formation of the character of civilization and yet it is under acknowledged the great book on the subject the denial of death by ernest becker deserves a reconsideration

Lex Fridman mentions Jaron Lanier's essay on death and consciousness, which references 'The Denial of Death' by Ernest Becker as a great book on the subject.

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so somebody i've enjoyed reading ernest becker wrote the denial of death there's also martin heidegger

The host mentions reading Ernest Becker and his book 'The Denial of Death' during a philosophical discussion about mortality.

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And there's also philosopher named ernest becker i don't know if you know that is he wrote denial of death

Lex Fridman mentions the philosopher Ernest Becker and his book 'Denial of Death' in the context of discussing the fear of death.

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so like there's a i don't know if you're familiar there's a philosopher named ernest becker who wrote the denial of death and his whole idea and there's folks psychologists cognitive scientists that work on terror management theory and they think that one of the special things about humans is that we're able to sort of foresee our death

Lex Fridman mentions the philosopher Ernest Becker and his book 'The Denial of Death' in the context of human awareness of mortality and its connection to creativity and terror management theory.

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but the real honest one is to fear it because i i i mean i'm with ernest becker as a philosopher uh he wrote a book called denial of death he says that the like much of the human condition is based in the fear of mortality that we like

Lex Fridman mentions the philosopher Ernest Becker and his book 'Denial of Death' while discussing the fear of mortality.

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There's a philosopher ernest becker who wrote a book um denial of death I'm not sure if you're familiar with any of those folks um there's a in psychology a whole field called terror management theory

Lex mentions the philosopher Ernest Becker and his book 'The Denial of Death' in the context of discussing the fear of death.

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you know i i don't know if you're familiar with a philosopher named ernest becker he wrote a book called denial of death

Lex mentions this book by Ernest Becker in the context of the fear of mortality and terror management theory.

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let me say as a side note that ernest becker's book denial of death had a big impact on my thinking about human cognition consciousness and the deep ocean currents of our mind that are behind the surface behaviors we observe

Lex Fridman mentions Ernest Becker's book and its impact on his thinking.

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well there's a there's a philosopher ernest becker who wrote a book denial of death

The host mentions a book by Ernest Becker about the fear of death.

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it seems to me the like I would like for me it was a really interesting moment reading Ernest Becker's denial of death the you know there's this kind of idea that we're all you know the fundamental thing from which most of our human mind Springs is this fear of mortality

Lex Fridman mentions reading this book by Ernest Becker and its idea about the fear of mortality.

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I mean though I think the book is called denial of death is this constant and now that we're running away from a that's uh in fact some would argue that the inspiration the incredible ideas you've put out there

The host mentions the book 'denial of death' in the context of discussing mortality and human cognition, referencing the author mentioned earlier.

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Ernest Becker explored it. In general do you ponder the value of mortality?

Lex Fridman mentions Ernest Becker in the context of exploring mortality.

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the work that we do um is derived from a cultural anthropologist ernest becker who in the 1970s uh won a pulitzer prize for a book called the denial of death

The speaker mentions Ernest Becker and his Pulitzer Prize-winning book as the foundational text for their research.

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Well i mean think of anyone who's read ernest becker's denial of death like that is about the fact that everything we do in life is to escape our awareness of death

Chris Williamson mentions the book and its central theme about escaping the awareness of death, relating it to the current situation.

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and then last one I'll throw out would be denial of death by Ernest Becker

Nat recommends The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker, explaining its theme about human actions being related to the fear of death.

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and then when I was on and it was in my 20s or 30s I read a book by a guy named Ernest Becker called denial of death I'm have you ever heard of this book

Brian Greene mentions reading this book by Ernest Becker in his 20s or 30s, asking Joe if he has heard of it.

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there's this book written by a Pulitzer Prize winner. I think his name is Ernest Becker, and the title of it was "The Denial of Death." In his book, he's, looking at secularism, and kind of what it's done in modernity,

Nathan Finochio mentions this book by a Pulitzer Prize winner, discussing its perspective on secularism and the death of God.

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I mean I read a book there's this um there was a book that was written years ago called Denial of Death. You ever read that? And I'm blanking on the name of the guy who wrote it. It'll come to me. But anyway, the book is called Denial of Death. I don't agree with it's kind of psych psychoan analytical. There's a lot of psycho babble in it. Uh it was written by an author who ironically wrote this book, published it, won I believe a Pulitzer and died and uh died of of cancer. I think he didn't know that he had it when he wrote this book, but then he published the book and he died. But anyway, his his his kind of theory was that like all of modern society is actually fundamentally set up to distract us from the fact that we're going to die. Of course, that terror of death is what drives everything. Um, and he takes that farther than I would probably take it, but I think there's actually a lot of truth to And I remember I read this book and I and I uh and I and I and I could see a lot of that in my own in my own life, of course. But then I I I discovered that that once I once I started actually thinking about that and meditating on it, maybe not literally meditating, but really thinking about it, uh I did become h I became less fearful somehow of it.

Matt Walsh mentions reading this book and discusses its central theory about the terror of death and how it affected him personally. He notes the author won a Pulitzer and died of cancer shortly after publishing, but does not name the author.

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