42. The Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything

2014-08-27

What does life, the universe, or anything mean? The most likely answer is both daunting and emboldening at once. (Be sure to check the description for related material!)

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Sartre’s “Being and Nothingness” - http://www.dhspriory.org/kenny/PhilTexts/Sartre/BeingAndNothingness.pdf

Nietzsche’s “Thus Spake Zarathustra” - http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1998/1998-h/1998-h.htm

Kierkegaard’s “Sickness Unto Death” - http://lib.tcu.edu/staff/bellinger/60023/summary_of_SicknessUD.htm

Dostoyevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov” - http://www.online-literature.com/dostoevsky/brothers_karamazov/

Simone de Bouvoir’s “The Ethics of Ambiguity” - http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir/ambiguity/

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