PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Susan R. Wolf, Meaningful Life
11 Jan 2013
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1997 article happiness and meaning two aspects of life . Defines meaning of life, instinct (longing) for people {page 232} Claims a paradigms in her culture (meaningful and meaningless examples) Active engagement (great, excitingly involved) in projects of worth (objective values) (page 232) Projects of worth; friends, personal virtues (charity) and religious values (examples) Meeting a movie star, crossword puzzles, video games, just amusements not satisfying deep meaning in meaning of life. Distinguishes active engagement but no projects of worth, or vice versa (example: doctors, driving a school bus) Engaged projects of worth but no active engagement. Meaning arises when subjective attraction meets objective attractiveness . Being a doctor is objective attractiveness (saves lives, helping people) Subjective, why i want to be a doctor? (family wants you to be a doctor or you want to be one) Comes from problem of worth (meaning in life)
