PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Epicurus, Threshold Of Pain

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Before attending to my estate, to my son"s education, or to the writing of a book, i ought to know why i should do that. So long as i did not know why, i could not do anything. I could not live. (p. 1: things that used to serve as final answers or motives to him now need justifications, and he is surprised that he cannot find any justification for it. Why make money at all: since final justifications of doing things aren"t right anymore, makes one wonder what the point of doing anything is. Sooner or later there would come diseases and death all my affairs, no matter what they might be, would sooner or later be forgotten, and i myself should not exist. This worry caused a serious crisis for tolstoy, leaving only five ways to respond to things not having any point.

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