PHL 605 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Midlife Crisis, Existential Crisis, Self-Awareness
12 Jan 2017
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The aesthete misunderstands the nature of despair, when the aesthete feels despair he or she feels like they are now getting enough pleasure (need to find better drugs, better sex) in order to fill gap inside them. It is not a physical void you can fill, it"s an existential void and the structure of the self. Either remain stuck in this cycle of pleasure/frustration or i decide to live more meaningfully. Hitting rock bottom, you got to change (ex. David bowie interview for me, i have to stop drinking . K. isn"t saying to give up pleasures, he"s saying it shouldn"t be the ultimate purpose of fulfillment. Do the drugs, don"t let the drugs do you . The aesthetic life ruins your relationships with other human beings, looks for fixes and not for meaningful relationships, so they become increasingly isolated, they are treated other human beings instrumentally.
