PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Irving Thalberg, Carl Jung, Mothers Against Drunk Driving

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

Document Summary

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 o. So deeply emotional because it encompasses the meaning of death as well. Monty python"s the meaning of life, life of brian (e. g. the crucifixion scene) o o o https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=wlbilnn1nhq. The main character is being crucified while singing a bright, cheery song. Nozick"s point about jokes could be taken in a kind of freudian sense: it"s a way of avoiding reality; if we really thought about this, we"d be depressed therefore we make jokes about it. Nozick himself, however, uses a joke: an american traveler seeks out a holy man in india to seek out a formula for the meaning of life, who says life is a fountain.