PHIL 1100 Lecture : The Meaning of Life-Nozick Cont'd
3 Jan 2012
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Nov 16/11: meaning in an intrinsic form, all meanings together. There is one possible way of having a meaning of life, take all 7 and putting them together. He quotes frankel, whom says its death itself that makes life meaningful. Death makes us realize that we only have so much time, time to get meaningful things done. This guy is not impressed by frankel"s argument. He says that all we need is to believe that there is death. Frankel says it is death that makes like meaningful. N says it"s the fact that we believe that we only have a limited amount of time. When we believe that, there are certain things that we would want to accomplish. He makes another criticism, you could lead an everlasting life and still have goals. They would just be a different kind of goals. He applies frankel"s point of view to theology. In mainstream theology, god is either immortal or eternal.
