PHIL 2170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Existentialism, Croesus, Noble Eightfold Path
17 Nov 2018
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Interesting for asking existentialism on an environmental account: friday is movie night (make cookies). So it"s up there and there is feedback. Extended office hours the next week leading up to it. Seminar class: environment, this question that we have about self and others and how we have ethical duties to other people. There is a tension between wanting to do good, and it being easy to do in our world. Intrinsic (value in itself) and instrumental value (value in light of something else). Tree is good for revitalizing the forest, human likes it for shelter, paper, a friend, beautiful. A wholistic world, existentialism talks about the individual and deep subjective meaning. The people and non-humans around us let us exist. Reducing a person into an object that you can use. I kant, i it lacks respect or autonomy. Use trees for paper, what about the tree that owns itself.
