PHIL 1033 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Heidegger

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1033
• Professor: David Cunning

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Respond to the most important objection to the view. How to clean view up and make it more plausible. Should strive to be in the middle. What"s the poi(cid:374)t of doi(cid:374)g a(cid:374)ythi(cid:374)g (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause e(cid:448)e(cid:396)ythi(cid:374)g is al(cid:396)eady determined: relax= calm down. Not making argument that life is pointlessly absurd. Not enough evidence fundamental beliefs require less evidence. Could be just gut feeling that makes us believe in it religion or politics. If take things as a comical joke then we would have some motivational handicap. Nagel would say (cid:272)a(cid:374) still go (cid:271)a(cid:272)k to daily life a(cid:374)d do thi(cid:374)gs a(cid:374)d that"s fi(cid:374)e but just take 5 or 10 min daily to relax and be comical. Nagel: (cid:449)e (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t es(cid:272)ape the (cid:396)ealization that our we have some degree of doubt about the validity of our beliefs. Because we can"t prove life is especially meaning less or meaning full, we should adopt an outside perspective sub specie aeternitatis.