PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cannibalism, Stoicism, Experience Machine
3 Oct 2017
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Schmidtz suggests that we can"t figure out the answer to this problem with logic and arguments. Two attitudes: existentialist attitude: life"s meaning, or lack thereof, is of momentous import. If we don"t get it we choose between stoicism and despair : zen attitude: meaning isn"t something to be sought. The existentialist attitude leads to attempts to try to force meaning upon life,w worrying about the need to answer the question what is the meaning of life , etc. The zen attitude just accepts things as they are bc worrying about meaning may make life less meaningful than it might have been . Meaing is what you do to make it home. Giving life meaning is like interior decorating. the personal activities act make up life accumulate to provide meaning > we might not have to look for anything deeper than this bc it does have a depth.
