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Jordan Peterson vs Ayn Rand on Finding Purpose in Life

January 6, 2025

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Podcast audio:

In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Onkar Ghate and Nikos Sotirakopoulos discuss how to make one’s life purposeful, without falling for the sacrificial tropes popular in our culture.

Among the topics covered:

Why aiming at a challenging, effortful life should not be equated with suffering;
How to evaluate Jordan Peterson’s notion that meaning is found outside of one’s life;
What is wrong with pursuing purpose by bearing others’ burdens;
Why achievement, not suffering, is the essence of human life and morality.

Recommended in this podcast are Ayn Rand’s novels Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead.

The podcast was recorded on December 17, 2024 and released on January 1, 2025. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Watch archived podcasts here.

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Ricardo Pinto

Ricardo Pinto, BA in philosophy, is a junior fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute.

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