The "How, Then, Shall We Live?" Lecture Series at the University of the South, Sewanee, TN aims to raise potent questions by inviting lecturers and organizing events which stoke lively conversation, not only in the University but in the Sewanee community at large. What are the key issues that bedevil us here in Sewanee? Who could help us think through such issues? Whose writing and life work speaks to them? Email us your thoughts at htswlseries@gmail.com
NICHOLAS KRISTOF LECTURE. SEPTEMBER 27th, 2005
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The "How, Then, Shall We Live?" Lecture Series at the University of the South, Sewanee, TN aims to raise potent questions by inviting lecturers and organizing events which stoke lively conversation, not only in the University but in the Sewanee community at large. What are the key issues that bedevil us here in Sewanee? Who could help us think through such issues? Whose writing and life work speaks to them? Email us your thoughts at htswlseries@gmail.com
My question...was the simplest of questions, lying in the soul of every man from the foolish child to the wisest elder: it was a question without an answer to which one cannot live, as I had found by experience. It was: "What will come of what I am doing today or shall do tomorrow? What will come of my whole life?" Differently expressed, the question is: "Why should I live, why wish for anything, or do anything?" It can also be expressed thus: "Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destroy?" -Tolstoy, A Confession
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