Philosophy, Religion, and the Meaning of Life

The Holocaust and the Crisis of Forgivness (1x27)

Air date: Jan 01, 2009

This lecture explores the Holocaust's impact on the human search for meaning through the voices of Martin Buber, Emmanuel Levinas, and Elie Wiesel. Consider the Saintly impulse in the face of man's greatest horror, in the ultimate questions of responsibility to others and forgiveness for the death of humanity.