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EPISODE · Sep 21, 2012 · 31 MIN

PREMIUM-Episode 63: Existentialist Heroes in Cormac McCarthy's "No Country for Old Men"

from The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

On philosophical issues in McCarthy's 2005 novel about guys running around with drug money and shooting each other, and about fiction as a form for exploring philosophical ideas. What can morality mean for people who have witnessed the "death of God," i.e. a loss in faith in light of the horrors of war? Who knows what McCarthy himself thinks? With guest Eric Petrie. Get the full discussion at partiallyexaminedlife.com.

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