Summary Of What Does It All Mean By Thomas Nagel

In the novel, “What Does It All Mean” by Thomas Nagel, it talks about different things throughout chapters 6 through 10, from free will, all the way up to death. In chapter 6, the prompt is free will, speaking about what it all means to have your own free will, for example the author explains that the person was given a choice between a chocolate cake, and a peach. The person decided to eat the cake, and did so in pleasure, knowing the side effects of what could happen. The next morning, the person looks in the mirror and wishes that she would’ve taken the peach because they think the chocolate cake is what made them look the way they do, but once you make a decisions you constantly wish you would’ve done the complete opposite, wishing you

Reading through chapter 7, it talks about how everyone’s morals are different, making everyone’s right or wrong different than mine or yours, due to the way they have grown up or the way social media or certain friend groups have rubbed off some good or bad morals onto that person, making the morals they thought were right, being changed and twisted into something else. In chapter 8, the prompt is justice, and it talks about how some things in life aren’t fair and if anything should be done about this. Most people around the world have different reasons why something can be unfair, especially when someone is poor, they say how unfair it is that they must pay more than the people that are rich to the government, but it is also in anything in the world, especially young adults, who think they should have gotten a scholarship for sports, or they should have gotten a different grade or a different teacher. The list of things being unfair goes on. In chapter 9, it talks about