philosophy

What am I?
What shall I do?
What may I hope and believe?
All things in philosophy can be reduced to this.

Nietzsche ties nihilism to “loss of confidence in our powers”, and it comes from local religious traditions being destroyed.

Books on philosophy per se are either highly technical stuff that doesn’t matter much, or vague concatenations of abstractions their own authors didn’t fully understand (e.g. Hegel).