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Do we find meaning in life - or do we have to create it ourselves?

Alex O’Connor discussed The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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   The Denial of Death

   Ernest Becker · at 13:55

   The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning psychological and philosophical study arguing that human civilization is ultimately driven by an unconscious terror of mortality.

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   “This is essentially a version of Ernest Becker's denial of death hypothesis, which famously suggests that the motivation for a great deal of human behavior is at least human behavior outside of immediate sensory concerns like eating and stuff like that. Anything that humans engage in on a societal level, on an abstract level, is ultimately motivated by an apprehension”

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