Uploaded February 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Finally, we get to finish off "Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient)" from Jordan B. Peterson's "12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos."

There's all kinds of philosophers or authors with names I'm doing my best to pronounce. I am trying. Constructive criticism welcome, otherwise please don't @ me.

Also, I'm not sure where some of my s sounds went at the ends of words. And I can't blame the de-Esser this time.

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Run time: 49:37

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Timestamps
0:00 Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient)
1:22 Intro
2:27 "Christianity and its Problems"
10:48 - Problems
15:27 - Nietzsche
20:42 - Dostoevsky
24:10 - Unfreedom
28:22 "Doubt, Past Mere Nihilism"
33:33 "Meaning as the Higher Good"
36:33 - Moral hierarchy
45:46 Conclusions