Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! As a 97 year old philosopher faces the end of his life, he discovers that much of his thinking about meaning and mortality might be wrong.
Directed by Andrew Hasse
Dr. Herbert Fingarette is a philosopher who’s tackled many topics: Confucius, psychoanalysis, alcoholism, self deception, responsibility, death. In each case, he thought he’d ‘solved the problem’. Now, he’s grappling with a question that can’t be answered: what is the meaning of life in the shadow of impending death?