PHIL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Moral Relativism, Kurt Baier, Ethical Subjectivism
6 Feb 2016
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Joske (1974), philosophy and the meaning of life . Many philosophers believe that philosophy is neutral on the meaning of life and is thus harmless. Joske, however, is going to argue that philosophy is indeed dangerous stuff. The extreme view here is that only words and symbols can have meaning. The new approach, he says, is to admit that activities can be meaningful and in a variety of ways, Intrinsic sense (in and of itself) or a derivative sense (not intrinsically meaningful, but only as a means to a goal) As an example of the latter, the view of kurt baier [not in our course] Baier, above the average human life with respect to happiness and pleasure. (ii) theoretically one make one"s life above the norm by increasing the amount of misery throughout the human world. Joske, four features of activities each of which make an activity meaningless. (iv) futile = ? e. g. the myth of sisyphus.
