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Ep. 1 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Introduction

John Vervaeke’s Lectern · 844.4K views · 2019-01-23 · 59:16

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The first episode of John Vervaeke's lecture series on the modern meaning crisis, tracing its history through philosophy, cognitive science, religion and psychology. It introduces the series and its themes.

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HN recommends the series as a thorough, non-dogmatic look at meaning, spirituality and escaping nihilism.

Recommended by 6 HN people across 7 months · HN mentions 2019–2022

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sophrocyne · 2021-08 · Strong recommendation

For anyone deeply interested in philosophy, the evolution of religion from a cognitive science perspective, or escaping a nihilistic perspective, this series has it all. I can’t recommend it enough. [VIDEO]

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Raminj95 · 2022-11 · Recommendation

I think the best answer to this question can be found in this series, i think episodes 5-7 is where he talks about the importance of Aristotle and the ways in which he shaped our grammar around so many concepts that are central to our day to day lives. [VIDEO]

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thenerdhead · 2022-09 · Recommendation

Maybe check out John Vervaeke's Awakening from the Meaning Crisis videos on YouTube: [VIDEO] Perhaps you might relate to how he describes this disconnect. While I don't think I've gone through a life crisis yet, he has brought clarity to the feelings I had that might have resulted in one.

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