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No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life
The Great Courses
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A Great Courses lecture series by philosopher Robert Solomon introducing existentialism and its treatment of the meaning of life. It is offered on CD and DVD from The Teaching Company, now known as The Great Courses.
Commenters call it an excellent introduction to existentialism and highly recommend it.
Humanities & Social Sciencebeginnerpaidvideo lectures#existentialism#philosophy#meaning of life#solomon
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As a gifted child, I had a lot of this. It was finally in my 30s when I realized that existentialism for me was really the only way forward. I really wish I had been exposed to these ideas earlier (However I'm not sure I could have absorbed them as a young adult)
Over the years I've become somewhat of a shill for the Teaching Company, which offers college-level courses on CD and DVD. Robert Soloman's "No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life" is an excellent introduction to existentialism. Highly recommended. http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/courses/course_detail.asp...
In my mind, if we are going to encourage and nurture kids at both ends of the spectrum -- highly functioning and less functioning -- we should provide some kind of intellectual bedrock to allow the gifted an anchor to succeed.