- 0:00-3:00 – Intro
- Hook: We’re all familiar with the big question: What is the meaning of life? But we often also ask a similar question: What is my life’s meaning? In this video I’m going to help you figure out not what the answer is, but how to answer it. To start, let me tell you a story about myself.
- Horror movies have no meaning -> movies have no intrinsic meaning outside of them -> our lives might as well be movies that play out which have no meaning
- 3:00-5:00 – Nihilism
- Everyday you go outside you see a bunch of ordinary things (3-5 things to mention)
- It’s all meaningless, our existence is haunted by nothingness, everything we see is empty inside, whatever we do is for no fundamental reason
- This mode of thinking is what we call nihilism (background on nihilism)
- 5:00-9:00 – Sartre
- But most of us need meaning in our lives—it’s not sustainable to live with no meaning
- It almost seems like we need to create our own meaning, our own values, our own morals
- Since we come into living without anything, we need to create meaning; this mode of thinking is what we call existentialism
- Existence precedes essence means that, “first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only afterwards, defines himself.”
- 9:00-13:00 – Beauvoir
- Existentialism is an optimistic frame of thought, not one of despair. This is different from nihilism.
- 13:00-15:00 – Outro
- Scary movie has meaning through existence?
