Philosophy 1250F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Derek Parfit, Anthropocene
23 Jan 2019
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Article -- learning how to die: anthropocene (extreme altruism) Geological times -- the environment significantly changes from one period to the other. Anthropocene = time just after human beings began to have significant effects on the climate. Soldier in iraq -- completely terrifying to be in a real war zone. Describes how he figured out how to react to all of this fixed in his mind that there is a very good chance that he would be dead by the end of the day. Don"t look ahead -- look at what you have to do now. Planning your future = worried about things you have to do + risks you have to take. There are things you have to do and if you know how to do them then. You really have to do them and do this without thinking. Said he saw the same thing happening during hurricane katrina in new orleans (same as iraq)
