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Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl, 1946

A psychiatrist on what kept people alive in the camps: a reason to go on.

Start here on Philosophy for living Named one of the ten most influential books in the US in a 1991 survey by the Library of Congress and the Book-of-the-Month Club. Source: Wikipedia

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  1. Frankl says a reason to go on kept people alive. Do you think meaning is found or made?
  2. How did the first half, about the camps, change the way you read the second half?
  3. Is it fair to apply ideas born in the camps to ordinary troubles?

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