PHIL 1100 Lecture : David Swenson.docx
Document Summary
People accepted the sorrows and diseases with no opposition saying that whatever happened was for the goof. Exentialist thinking dead in modern psychology and biology. He claims that if we live in the present, then there would be nothing eternal in life and we would disappear. Live in the moment not gonna work because we"re human beings . Makes preparation for external life (career) and internal life (more fundamental) The way we look at the world. Weltanschauung - way we look at the world everything happens for a reason. Socrates; your life is a waste if you don"t try to know yourself; know thyself. What we want to believe and what is really the case. Not having a view of life is like not having the belief in destiny. View of knowledge; not the object of life but subjective vision. View of life that gives meaning, dignity and worth to one"s life everybody wants that.