PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dc Album), Robert Nozick, Viktor Frankl
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Robert nozick (1981), philosophy and the meaning of life . The question of the meaning of life is so heavily laden with our emotion and aspiration that we camouflage our vulnerability with jokes about seeking for the meaning or purpose of life . [- e. g. monty python"s the meaning of life, life of brian (e. g. [- e. g. monty python"s the meaning of life, life of brian (e. g. the crucifixion scene)] https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=wlbilnn1nhq. [- e. g. woody allen"s love and death] https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=ifjttc_agsu. [- nozick"s point about jokes could be taken in a kind of freudian sense: = ?] Against quick and easy formulaic answers to what is the meaning of life? . This idea is captured to an extent in the book and movie the razor"s edge. Here he distinguishes different senses and kinds of meaning : meaning as external causal relationship. + e. g. that fact that you exists means that everyone of us lived, eg.