PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Existence Precedes Essence, Theism, Atheism

• School: York University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1100
• Professor: Shyam Ranganathan

Document Summary

There are objective answers to what are right and wrong. You are an agent who is de ned in part by what you want. We are free to chose what we want and by choosing what we want, we de ne ourselves. A life worth living is a divine life. Humans are critters that can overcome boundaries if allowed. We cant overcome the limitation of virtue. The fact of our live is de ned by these boundaries. Aslong as you dont think about the torture too much, you can live a happy life. We have to get rid of idea that there is a point to the activity. Cannot have a meaningful happy lifeonly happy or meaningfulnot both. Camus - dont look for an escapeitll just happen. If the task we are doing is bene cial to others they need us and if we are needed we dont have to be people who are stuck.