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#227 – Sean Kelly: Existentialism, Nihilism, and the Search for Meaning
Lex Fridman Podcast
He's a Nobody He's You and Me
Ishmael is the illegitimate son of Abraham in the Old Testament. He's named after the non Christian sort of son of Abraham. His task is to figure out the meaning of the universe through going whaling and having a confrontation with his tormentor, this whale Moby Dick. And so somehow Quequeg is this character who is like not Christian at all. And he's powerful in a very different way than Ahab is.
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