PHIL 2P14 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: John Climacus
5 Feb 2018
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Either/or: aesthetic to denote personal, sensory experiences, mostly in pleasurable state of happiness, pleasures however get boring after a while. Music from don giovanni, can be enjoyed on its own, equally enjoyable to pretend to be don. Is devoted to pleasure as well and sees repetition as an enemy of pleasure: the extreme difficulty of achieving true aesthetic pleasure leads a to claim that boredom is the most common, and unpleasant, human state. Once johannes makes his move, things happen very quickly, and he"s soon engaged to cordelia: he isn"t satisfied with the success of his seduction, until he has purposely driven. Cordelia to break the engagement and later come back to him: at this point he is finished with her and goes to find a new woman to seduce. Once johannes has exhausted all the imaginative and exciting possibilities with. Cordelia, continuing his relationship with her would lead him to boredom.
