Natalie's brother is dying, is Nick the only one who can save him?  At what cost?  

What is the Existentialist basis for Ethical living?  If "absurdity challenges ethics"  how do we reconcile the need to live in the world with others with the subjective nature of freedom?  

Sources this week include:  

Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 1947.  Beauvoir, Pyrrhus and Cineas, 1944.  Sartre, "Existentialism is a Humanism," 1946.