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

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the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (06:50)
- Existentialism (26:58) - Nietzsche and nihilism (44:35) -
Dostoevsky (1:00:02) - Camus and suicide (1:18:31) - The Big
Lebowski (1:26:20) - Ayn Rand (1:36:28) - Evil (1:47:03) -
Heidegger (1:58:43) - Hubert Dreyfus (2:04:35) - Moby Dick
(2:15:51) - David Foster Wallace (2:36:03) - Can AI make art?
(2:55:46) - Meaning of life