PHILOS 1E03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Big Bang
9 Jan 2016
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Early modern conceptions (descartes, and others: identify a small number of primitive emotions, and show how the others are derived from them. Existentialist thinkers: despair reveals something fundamental about human beings, the human condition and state of mind. Human existence is not an object of study but something lived: the problem of human existence should not just be studied, but to be looked at from one"s own point of view. Death: a genuine reflection of your own death gives rise to despair. Our attitude towards our own death is objective (very far away, not thought about). What if it becomes subjective? (you see that you are gone forever, and no one cares) that is what causes sickness unto death. It may seem that religious people are immune to despair. Arises as a disrelation in our experience of self as body and self. Only human beings are capable of despair. Ex. 1: ambitious man declares (caesar or nothing!)
