PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Viktor Frankl, Richard Dawkins, Libido
11 Jan 2013
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Our lives spent through our routines (problems, success, happiness, failures) Nature compels us to carry on, struggle. Tend to not reach adulthood (have no children) page 239. High sex drive more reproduction, less sex drive less reproduction. Problem, the living today, we live in a privileged society, not like our ancestors. Instead, the problem is income (welfare), prestige (status), and self-esteem issues, all very psychological. If we want income, prestige, and high self-esteem our meaning of lives is shallow. Have the luxury to decide what is important. Once turned into teens, they are very likely to be peer pressured. Adults are shaped by success (have this to that) Why should we put up with it? . It shows that we may be mistaken in believing that our projects have meaning (page 252) To think that the projects we regarded as meaningful were in fact meaningless (page 252)
