How Nihilism Destroys You | Tolstoy's Confession

An Existential Crisis is a uniquely painful experience. It robs all the joy out of life and leaves us a heaping mess on the floor. But luckily, we can turn to some of the greatest minds in history to guide us through. And foremost among these is Tolstoy's Confession, where he outlines how he fell into existential despair, and how he eventually started to dig himself out of it.

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00:00 Tolstoy's Existential Crisis
01:34 The Brutality of Nihilism
08:13 Four Futile Paths
14:27 Faith, Reason, and Conflict
20:57 Finding Normativity: An Open Challenge