Episode · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 2024-05-23
Books mentioned on 451. Navigating Belief, Skepticism, and the Afterlife | Alex O'Connor
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Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a psychological masterpiece that explores the crushing guilt, moral torment, and eventual redemption of a destitute former student who commits a brutal murder in St.
Discussed“and so Hamlet is an abstraction like raskolnikov in crime and punishment did raskolnikov exist”
Where to get it
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A Confession
Leo Tolstoy's A Confession is a profound and intensely personal philosophical work detailing the author's harrowing spiritual crisis and his ultimate search for meaning.
Discussed“right to TL sto wrote about this in his confession he sort of he was he was I I love it it's like 100 pages long you can you can read it in noted”
Where to get it
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Own book We Who Wrestle with God
“that's one of the passages that I've concentrated a lot in this new book that I've just finished uh uh we who wrestle with God”
Own book Maps of Meaning
“when I wrote maps of meaning so I did that I used the union Works in that regard”
Own book Maps of Meaning
“When I wrote Maps of Meaning, I did that; I used the Jungian works in that regard, but I also used what I knew about neuropsychology and neuropsychopharmacology, with the presumption being that if all these pointers pointed to the same thing, it was probably there.”