The River of Ideas

1900 – now

Modern Times

With old certainties gone, the twentieth century asked what it means to be free, to find meaning, and to live honestly in a universe that began with a Big Bang. The voyage reaches our own time.


Sartre & Our Own Time1905–1980Said we are ‘condemned to be free’ — we must choose who to become.The Big BangtodayModern science traces everything back to one cosmic beginning.
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