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Lost
Netflix
Meaning, Fate & Free Will

Live Together, Die Alone: Meaning & Community

Lost is a philosophical playground: fate and free will, faith and reason, community and self. Use it to teach the questions that make philosophy feel personal.

Intermediate

Modules

Module 1

Fate & Free Will

Anchor scene

Locke vs. Jack

In this module

  • Compatibilism, libertarianism, determinism
  • Character and choice
  • Choice architecture in stories

Course outcomes

  • Discuss classic problems of free will and determinism
  • Analyze faith and reason as ways of knowing
  • Study community formation and rules
  • Reflect on meaning-making in modern life