PHIL 1033 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Egocentrism
11 Dec 2018
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Phil 1033 3. 05. 18: the fourth criterion (10) that our pursuits actually have a value what we have in mind when we speak of a meaningful life, or a life of meaning and significance. There is value in the world against egocentrism and narcissism (16, 17). God and meaning (23: possible objections, we don"t any final proof that there is such a thing as objective value, even if there is such a thing, it"s hard to know for sure what is objectively valuable. What if we are massively deluded like pre-civil war slave owners: perhaps our experience is all that matters after all, it is all that we can know. [frankfurt: a distinctive feature of persons (5-7) Ii. desires and motivation a desire to eat something, to see a movie, to go to the gym, to have good manners, to be a doctor, etc: not focused on subjective or objective values.
