PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Peter Lipton, Sociobiology, Robert Trivers

• School: York University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1100
• Professor: David Stamos

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Contrasts our lives with a seemingly meaningless existence (condemned by the gods) Was in the underworld but got out, which angered the gods o. This is always the question given any myth, e. g. the myth of adam and eve. This reinforces certain values: the meaning of life is afterlife"; for the greeks, the meaning. I"m not so sure this is a good answer. E. g. the symbolism might stress a negative about the afterlife: e. g. homer has achilles say o he"d rather be a slave on earth than a king in the underworld) o priestesses say is the will of the gods!! o. Or maybe the meaning of the myth of sisyphus is don"t disobey what the priests and. Part of the sociology (function) of religion and religious belief. Other religions with their myths would presumably share many functions. Taylor, the myth of sisyphus, a paradigm case of a meaningless existence, the work is o simply pointless .