PHIL 1100 Lecture 6: PHIL1100, Week 6 lecture 6
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Week 6a nagel "the absurd: position taken by nagel resembles that of camus who argues that we cannot deny absurdity, but that this is consistent with happiness, according to nagel, however, the standard arguments for absurdity are bad. This is the perspective from our form of life: then there is an external perspective in which we view our activities independently of our motivations and desires, put these two together and our actions seem gratuitous and meaningless. Attempts to avoid absurdity: one might argue that the problem with most forms of life is that they attempt to locate meaningfulness by reference to human plans. It arises out of our ability of self-reflection: mice, for instance, do not lead absurd lives because they cannot abstract themselves from their lives: the absurdity of life is like epistemic skepticism (the doubt that we know). Hare, and reads his french copy of camus" the.
