An aging philosopher returns to the essential question: ‘What is the point of it all?’

An aging philosopher returns to the essential question: ‘What is the point of it all?’

A reader sent me the following video. (Click on the link above.) It records the last reflections on life and death by the philosopher Herbert Fingarette (1921-2018) who had a long career at the University of California, Santa Barbara. As my reader put it:

… there is an immediacy here that cuts to the bone. There is a difference between the written word and the spoken and when both are expressed together as a video, the impact can be overwhelming: we internalize it as a transcendent phenomenon–as if it were happening to us …

I found the video most moving and I thank my reader for sharing it.