Existentialism: Lev Shestov, “The Theory of Knowledge“

In this video, I discuss the Existentialist philosopher Lev Shestov’s short essay, “The Theory of Knowledge“. In it, Shestov discusses the nature of truth and how post-Kantian Critical Philosophy, and the History of Philosophy have missed the sorts of truth that philosophers genuinely engaged in the practice of Philosophy -- an activity rather than a method or a discipline -- have encountered and attempted to convey. In his view, the Theory of Knowledge really functions as an apologetics for science, wh