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#227 – Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning

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Moby Dick by David Foster Wallace

I've never gotten through Moby Dick or are any of Melville's works. So maybe can you comment on before we talk about David Foster Wallace who I have gotten through. What are some of the sources of meaning in these classics? Good so Moby Dick I think is the other great novel of the 19th century. The brothers Caramel itself is a kind of in it's a kind of existential interpretation of Russian Orthodox Christianity. How do you live that way and find joy in your existence?"

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