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#227 – Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Dostoevsky: The Idiot

Dostoevsky's "Caramoff's Office" is an intense exploration of what it means to be involved in various ways with an activity that everyone can recognize as atrocious. And how even through this kind of action, you can achieve some kind of salvation. That's Dostoevky's word for it. It doesn't justify any of the bad things that happen in my life now. What matters is, can we live well in the face of these things that we do and have to take responsibility for?

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