PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 41: The Emotions
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Essence: also means the purpose of your existence. Subjectivity: willing what i should be (consciousness, only i am aware of my own states/how i feel) Without god there is no external source of values (therefore, atheists have no way of knowing what is right and wrong) Or only an atheist can really be good because choosing to be good with no incentive is morally superior. Plato: a) so god doesn"t help (we already know what is good, no point to god) 1) how do you know it"s really god talking: you are the one picking the one sacred text. 2) anyway you pick and choose in the test it is i who will choose to say that it is good. ". If you knew how to pick a sacred text then you already knew what was good and bad and didn"t need a sacred text to begin with. Positive: value is created by your choice.
