PHIL 1062 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Herd Mentality
4 Feb 2018
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People have been trained to follow a thou shalt. This is dangerous because anyone will do, every religion promises to end your problem and if you choose to accept this you become a willing participant in herd mentality. Avoid happiness so you don"t fall in a trap of herd mentality. They believe because they need a standard where everyone is equal: by believing this standard you will be happier, believe this even if they are not. standard where you view anyone as equal to everyone else in society. One of the byproducts of achieving happiness is that youre gonna grasp onto any. Religion of judaism: not very good religion reversal of values. Reversed values: going against christianity and conquering roman empire goes with. Slaves view the powerful as evil, since the powerful are evil, nietzche thinks that they think: i must be good, bc im not powerful . This encourages a particular set of virtues and behaviors.
