PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - John Stuart Mill
Document Summary
There is an instinct that we all have. Many of us living today in privileged societies, we don"t have the same struggle that our ancestors faced on a daily basis. We have comfortable lives the primitive struggle for us is over. The threat we face is: income, prestige, self-esteem, social and psychological problems. The competition, and success, this is the struggle we face the superficial view. Kekes: we have the luxury to sit back and ponder the meaning of life, and reflect whereas our ancestors did not have this. Many who successful have an existential breakdown. Children are indoctrinated, adolescents are guided, adults are pressed into the mould. Life has no meaning: just because we ask for the meaning of something, that doesn"t mean that there is a meaning. Na ve realism- the world is colorless, using science to find out. Critique: despair or cynicism they poison the enjoyment our life.
