This video will give you an existential crisis.

This video is the first in a three-part series that explores the role that existential crisis plays in life, through an (informal) analysis of "existentialist" / "existentialism" philosophy and literature. In this video, we will talk about the stories of Adam and Eve and of Abraham and Isaac in Genesis, the introduction of The Iliad, Diotima's speech in Plato's Symposium and the knight of Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling. By the end of this video, I hope you will get a sense for why you actually do care about this subject, why it makes sense to look at books to study it, and why anyone would even WANT to experience an existential crisis.

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Chapters
0:00 Prologue: You are going to die.
4:05 Chapter 1: Genesis—How about we throw away our lives in exchange for nothing?
13:16 Chapter 2: The Iliad—Maybe I can climb the hierarchy and gain eternal glory!
23:36 Chapter 3: Symposium—Life is beautiful because of wisdom! Wisdom will make me immortal!
35:06 Chapter 4: Fear and Trembling—But wisdom is not enough. I need... faith?
43:48 Conclusion: So what does really living look like? Let's rest up before our next journey.

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Acknowledgments, FOOTNOTES, COMMENTARY and SOURCES: docs.google.com/document/d/10hRGkFWFoF7LkKlxVq2lUz…