PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Theism, Intelligent Design, Existentialism
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Beauty is not accidental as it wouldn"t be considered meaningful. If the world is meaningful, it is meaningful because its like art. Can be true to us, but not to all. Outside boundary is necessary in comparison to what we think is important. When we can articulate what we think is important to us, we have already divided the world into 2 parts & the outside must not ruin, but support our subjective views inside. There are boundaries to the meaningful of our life & boundaries are gracious & mysterious. Patriarchal - draws fem vs masc and masc is greater. What we need for a functioning society --- u must follow norm for own title. Linguistic essentialism-when we use our words, they latch onto society in a certain way. Realism ( our talk and distinction between outside world) realism antirealism. There really is an objective matter out there, that our language attaches onto.