PHIL 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Daniel Kahneman, Pointless, Colonoscopy
10 Apr 2019
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If there are grade problems talk to the prof; he will regrade your paper! (wait until final grades are out though) Internal: a problem of success: external: a problem no matter how successful one is. April 13 2018: to live a happy life, need to find meaning in your own life. I am free when i have the capacity to act (lewis: freedom depends on human psychology (strawson, the mind, thought could be mechanical (turing, there could be a "science of perspective" (nagel) Importance of persons doesn"t require a self (parfit: values, some "oughts" derive from social institutions (searle) Justice is a contract among people (rawls: beauty is a matter of human responses or sentiments (hume, there"s a pattern! Happiness: a step sideways: the constituents of happiness are often the constituents of meaning-- family, friends, work, a life couldn"t be happy if it were not meaningful (though it could be meaningful even if not happy)
