PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Philosophical Skepticism
4 Aug 2013
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What if every cause needed an explanation. Talk of the creator that our life was designed with some purpose. Philo getting us to divide our different requirements of god up. Requirement of explanation is different than requirement for teacher or god. Requirement to continue to take responsibility for universe. Humans are similar to god in some ways (analogies) but not all. Things are better than they are worse. Human happiness exceeds misery is hard to be proven. The point of article is to be taken through all the possibilities that are consistence with the possibility of god. You get a great god by trying to explain this. Insigni cant in the universe (not a quality reason bc if we were huge it wouldn"t make us more signi cant) Were all gonna die anyways (not a quality reason to believe life is absurd (p. 117 3rd paragraph) issue of nal value -
