PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lucretius
3 Oct 2017
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Nozick begins w story of a sage to point out that we unquestioned assumptions about what the meaning of life should mean or be. ) one word holding multiple concepts: meaning as intrinsic meaningfulness: objective meaning in itself, apart from any connections to anything else (saying something but has no relation to others, but meaningful in and of itself generally valuable . Is the crucial fact about death not that it makes us finite or limits our future, but that it limits the possibilities . 3. death traces might suppress something important and valuable about our lives, projects that we want to persist after we are gone leaving traces is intrinsically, important because of the assumption that which is more permanent. God"s plan a lot of ppl find meaning in the assumption that god has a plan for their lives what if god decides the meaning of life is to suffer/////// desire to appeal to god"s plan won"t know.
