PHIL 2720 Lecture 16: Lecture 16- phil 2720
31 Oct 2017
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His key idea: life has meaning and perhaps there is no single unitary sense in which meaningful lives are meaningful he is an optimist. On the optimist side susan think there is a meaning in life. She thinks that meaning in life picks out something unitary, specific and similar. He endorses the optimistic side of taylor"s article. meaning, if we don"t get it we chose between stochism and despair. Recall the seeker and sage story: it suggests a contrast of attitudes: the existential and the zen. The exis attitude says lifes meaning is of great importance. Two ways to go about the question and neither is right nor wrong. The zen insight is that if we do that (parallel to pod), worrying about hedon@ 8 mins. In search of meaning, you might miss what you already got. They may be limited: they need not last .
