PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Schmaltz, Experience Machine
30 Oct 2017
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Two attitudes between strontium and despair lads to attempts to try to force meaning upon life not just accepts things as they are. Existentialist attitude: lies meaning, we seek meaning. if we don"t get it we choose (cid:884). Zen attitude: meaning isn"t something to be sought, the meaning comes to us or meanings done always last -> things that meant a lot to us at one times don"t at. Meanings aren"t necessarily (cid:498)deep(cid:499)-> people can find meaning in activities that aren"t momentous (cid:498) ultimately, any impact we have is ephemeral(cid:499) life"s meaning is contingent on how we live intersect with nozick"s points that meaning is relational. Nozick"s (cid:498)experience machine(cid:499) example (cid:498)meaning as personal touch(cid:499) might not have to look for anything deeper than this because it (cid:498)does have a depth. The personal activities that make up life accumulate to provide meaning -> we.
