PHIL 1200 Lecture Notes - Transcendentalism, Immanence, Arthur Schopenhauer
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Pojman: making the transcendent matter. Conditions for something to be a meaning- maker. Meeting the conditions: the importance of the transcendent. Recall that schopenhauer provided a reason (viz. , the problem of evil) to accept premise 2 of the nihilist"s worry. Since, like nagel, he also thought there was good reason to accept. Premise 3 of the nihilist"s worry, he ended up embracing nihilism. In his contribution, louis p. pojman provides a reason to accept premise 3 of the nihilist"s. Worry and reject premise 2 of the argument. He wants to convince us that the meaning of life must be grounded in a transcendent meaning of life. And he argues, in effect, that a transcendentalist perspective is the only perspective that can assure us of these theses. Pojman"s conditions for something to count as a meaning- maker for life: Pojman"s first through third theses, 27- 28, and his sixth thesis, 29. )