Is philosophy the answer? For many, a perfect photo of a surfing legend speaks to their inner search for meaning. Some think the answer lies in the most ancient kind of knowledge.
Surge in search for higher meaning
The way and the truth: Photographer Jerome Brouillet catches the Olympic surfer Gabriel Medina on Monday in a stunning image showing Medina and his tethered board appearing to perform parallel levitations above the South Pacific Ocean. Glossary
Olympics - A major international multi-sport event held every four years.
Solar eclipse - A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, casting a shadow over parts of Earth and blocking the face of the Sun for observers in those locations.
Fundamental - Key.
Aristotle - A student of Plato, tutor to Alexander the Great and the father of political philosophy.
Plato - One of the most important Ancient Greek philosophers.
Immanuel Kant - A German Enlightenment philosopher who is regarded as one of the most important thinkers of the modern era. He fundamentally changed the way we think about a variety of subjects, from aesthetics to cognition to morality.
Karl Marx - A 19th-Century German economist and philosopher who argued that capitalism was doomed to collapse.
Quiver - An archer's case for holding arrows, or nervous shaking.