CAS PH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Thomas Nagel, Paul Gauguin, Solipsism
3 May 2016
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Meaning in life: god doesn"t matter, some lives have greater meaning. Question 2 is not necessarily related to morality. The case of useless we may imagine a life full of activity, but silly or decadent or useless activity. (and again, i have nothing against silly activity, but only against a life that is wholly occupied with it. ) We may imagine for example, one of the idle rich who flits about, fighting off boredom, moving from one amusement to another. She shops, she travels, she eats at expensive restaurants, she works out with her personal trainer. Or consider a scientist whose life"s work is rendered useless by the announcement of a medical breakthrough just weeks before his own research would have yielded the same results. Perhaps more poignantly, imagine a woman whose life is centered around a relationship that turns out to be a fraud .
