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Freedom & Meaning

Living without the guarantees that used to come as standard

Nietzsche · Sartre · Camus · Beauvoir · 3 chapters · 9 min read

What do you do when the old certainties fall away?

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Nietzsche

  1. 01'God Is Dead', and What FollowsOn what happens to a civilisation that stops believing but keeps the furniture.

Existentialism & the Absurd

  1. 02Existence Precedes EssenceOn having no excuse available, ever, and why that is a burden rather than a liberation.
  2. 03Camus and the AbsurdOn the collision between wanting meaning and getting silence, and the two ways of cheating.