PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Intellectual Virtue, Existentialism, Abrahamic Religions
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Order of things you do is the opposite of the way you deliberate them. If practical syllogisms leads to a decision, there is still room to fail to do what you decided: not getting up when youre supposed to or when would be most benificiary. Irrationally putting value on the present rather than future. You know what you should do (not necessarily morally just what morally, just (cid:449)hat(cid:859)s (cid:271)est o(cid:448)e(cid:396)all(cid:895) yet you do(cid:374)(cid:859)t. We seem programmed to discount the future: today or a year from now, most people choose irrationally and pick . An existentialist may see all this differently. (see wk (cid:1006)(cid:1008) (cid:895) How do we decide (cid:449)hat(cid:859)s (cid:858)(cid:271)est(cid:859)? (cid:858)se(cid:396)ious things are better than laugha(cid:271)le(cid:859) (cid:894)(cid:1011)(cid:1011)a(cid:1006) (cid:1007)(cid:895) And also from the pleasures of inquiry: knowing is more pleasant than i(cid:374)(cid:395)ui(cid:396)i(cid:374)g(cid:859) (77a24) Philosophic wisdom is (cid:858)pleasa(cid:374)test(cid:859) (cid:858)those who know will pass the time more pleasantly than those who inquire pleasantly tha(cid:374) those (cid:449)ho i(cid:374)(cid:395)ui(cid:396)e(cid:859) (cid:894)(cid:1005)(cid:1005)(cid:1011)(cid:1011)a(cid:895)
