Why Live? with Céline Leboeuf
Overthink
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I TA for a Course That Started With Tolstoy
I started with Tolstoy because as I said, I TA for a course that started with TolStoy. So this was really already embedded in my experience. What appealed to Tolstoy was idea that if you followed a certain set of religious principles, adopted certain ethical rules, then you could aspire to something like heaven That would bridge your finite life and give it a sense of meaning. But the embrace soul of what he calls irrational knowledge did not appeal to me as someone who came from a largely secular background. You're half French after all.
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