Existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (pictured here) was born on this day in 1905. When I’m asked to define the subject, I say that existentialism is the doctrine that we live in a universe that has no meaning–one that is coldly …
Tag: Existentialism
Riddles of Matter, Energy, Space, and Time
I remember the first evening of a course in existentialism I had 37 years ago this fall, in which I asked the professor, “According to (Nobel prize-winner and existentialist superstar) Albert Camus, ‘suicide is the only valid philosophical question,’ implying …
Tagged with: Albert Camus, Brian Greene, Descartes, energy, Existentialism, Socrates, superstring theory, TED Talks, The Fabric of the Cosmos
