PHIL 1033 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Necessitarianism
6 Dec 2016
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Phil 1033 11. 28. 16: take a third-person perspective (sect. Extreme epictetus: get rid of desire and attachment entirely. Extreme epictetus: be ok with how things turn out for me, no matter what? social justice and complacency: slave boy who does things for him, okay with whatever happens around him let it go don"t be bothered. Moderate epictetus seems much more plausible on all of these counts. Objections to both extreme epictetus and moderate epictetus. Moderate epictetus and risk: if you don"t risk anything, you risk even more. , what risks would you to take on a daily basis if you knew you would never fail? . Is it absurd in the idea that we are comical human beings: clips from total recall to set the stage for later. Bad arguments for the view that our lives have no significance. Nothing that we do now will matter [to anyone] in a million years (716).
