PHILO-120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Subjectivism, Implicature, The Big Questions
12 Aug 2020
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Philosophy: the investigation, through natural reason, into the fundamental aspects of reality and the universal characteristics of human existence. Philosophy is the science of fundamental questions. We seek to understand reality through its ultimate causes; to know the foundational explanations of being itself. Supernaturalism: the meaning of life is found principally in something that transcends the physical, material world. God-centered supernaturalism: the meaning of life is found. Soul-centered supernaturalism: the meaning of life is found in principally in relation to god. some perfection of the soul, which transcends mere bodily existence. Naturalism: the meaning of life is found in the context of the physical, material world. life. Subjectivism: each person creates the values for his or her own. Objectivism: there are intersubjective standards of meaning not. Nihilism: there is no meaning of life; everything is literally pointless. reducible to each person"s own choices and preferences. Basic method: rational reflection on and careful logical analyses of ordinary experience; thought, thought out.
