Materialism In The Holocaust

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Viktor Frankl knows that without meaning, people will rely on something like power, materialism, and hatred to define who they are as a human being. The kid to grew up with a dream to be a doctor, lived that dream with more knowledge that he thought he would have. He was a man who survived the Holocaust, but he was never a Christian or anything like that. He was someone who relied on his own beliefs and on self enlightenment. Like people who are buddhists. He did not rely on something greater that him. But somehow he found a way to be happy. When he was in the holocaust he realized that the people who knew who they were survived longer. The people who had no idea about who they were lived a shorter amount of time. Then he discovered Logotherapy.

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