PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Existentialism
2 Dec 2011
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He agrees with ayer, when we ask what is the meaning of life . we are not asking for the causes of life or a description about how people lead their lives. Rather people are looking for a justification for their lives. This raises the question, what makes one life more worthwhile than another life. This says neilson is what people are essentially trying to get at. He agrees with ayer on the basis of the is ought fallacy. Neilson then turns to the issue of god. Lets say there is a god in the traditional sense, many theists and atheists would agree if there is no god, that human life has no purpose. All that would be left is the meaning that we give to our lives. He also says that whether god exists or not, is irrelevant to the meaning of life. Lets suppose there is a god, a god who created us for a purpose.
