PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Clarence Darrow, Bertrand Russell, Arthur Schopenhauer
11 Jan 2013
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The meaning and value of life paul edwards. If one rejects the catholic world view, and accepts scientific world view, 93% do not have a religious belief while the 7% do. Schopenhauer summary, world of suffering, better if the world did not exist, life is not a gift . If we knew what life had in store for us, we would choose to not live life is an illusion, it teases us with happiness (mainly gives us disappointment) We can dismiss schopenhauer s argument (said by edwards) since he is a bitter lonely old man. A fallacy (abusive ad hominem) however, edwards does not say it is a fallacy. He says differently , people can say this if they are not a lonely bitter old man (brings up two people) Tolstoy had everything (money, family and friends: found life in a stupid joke". Solution for tolstoy, was to have a cream of suicide, embarrassed simple christianity in peasants.
