The concept of self. Personal identity as essentially internal / Rainer Maria Rilke, Henri Bergson, John Locke
The duality of mind and body / Franz Kafka, René Descartes
Defining oneself through commitement / Henrik Ibsen, Jean-Paul Sartre
The problem of evil. Human suffering as incompatible with God's goodness / Fyodor Dostoyevsky, David Hume
Divine justification in the ultimate design / Leo Tolstoy, Alexander Pope, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Evil as a reality to be overcome / Voltaire, John Stuart Mill
The answer of absolute faith / Archibald MacLeish, Soren Kierkegaard.
Free will and determinism. The predeterminism of destiny / Sophocles, Epictetus
Economic and material factors as determinants / Emile Zola, Karl Marx & Frederick Engels
Psychological laws and human control / Aldous Huxley, B.F. Skinner
The affirmation of free will / Fyodor Dostoyevsky, William Ernest Hocking
Ethical ideas: the good life. Pursuing happiness or following principles / Jean Anouilh, John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant
Dedication to God / T.S. Eliot, St. Augustine
Furthering the progress of mankind / George Bernard Shaw, Friedrich Nietzsche.
The nature of reality. Subjective and objective reality / Luigi Pirandello, Plato
The essence of the universe / Hermann Hesse, William James
Chance and teleology / Jorge Luis Borges, Aristotle
Human purpose in a meaningless world / Eugène Ionesco, Albert Camus.
