PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Subjectivism, Pointless, Ethical Subjectivism
25 Aug 2016
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Joske (1974), philosophy and the meaning of life harmless. Many philosophers believe that philosophy is neutral on the meaning of life and is thus. Joske, however, is going to argue that philosophy is indeed dangerous stuff. The extreme view here is that only words and symbols can have meaning. The new approach, he says, is to admit that activities can be meaningful and in a variety of ways. As an example of the latter, the view of kurt baier [not in our course] Baier: life had meaning if above the average human life with respect to happiness and o pleasure. Joske, two criticisms: o o throughout the human world. Theoretically one make one"s life above the norm by increasing the amount of misery o o o o. Joske, four features of activities each of which make an activity meaningless. Worthless = lacking merit (e. g. parsing and analyzing sentences for no reason)
