PHIL 1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter Readings 1-3: Albert Camus, Arthur Schopenhauer
31 Jan 2018
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Camus: one serious philosophical problem is suicide. There are three di erent approaches to what is the meaning of life? . 1) theistic answer: meaning is found in the existence of god. 2) non-theistic (humanistic): denies that god has any meaning to life. No reason to believe life has any objective meaning. Meaning must be found within the natural universe. 3) approach that questions meaningfulness of question: question itself is cognitively meaningless. He believes it is absurd to think pain serves no purpose. Arthurs opinion on misfortune: it"s something exceptional and in general is the rule. He considers evil to be positive, it makes its own existence felt. Pleasure isn"t as pleasurable and pain is more painful than we anticipated. The longer you live, the more clear you"ll feel that life is a disappointment, hay and a cheat. Defunctus est = man has done is task . He compares it to a pendulum swinging back and forth between pains.
