PHILOS 2 Chapter Notes - Chapter reader: Rationality, Indep
2 Mar 2019
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1: then one might have thrown one"s life away, quote came before darwin"s theory = undermine religious beliefs, 2 comments, god is no longer grounding of our being, no longer submission to god"s purposes, 1700"s to 1900"s. Evaluation vs directive/imperative judgement: evaluation- x is: good, bad, beautiful, ugly . B: some judgments lie between pure valuations & pure directives. Imperative/directive judgement- i must l, i ought to l, it would be best to l. Non-cognitive accounts: taylor"s = non-cognitive account of meaning of life, ends supplied by feeling or will. Inner perspective it commends is the only possible perspective upon life"s meaning. Inner view = participative: depends on availability of the inner view. E: outer view = objective (supposedly, author will show how activities that can be regarded as their own goals no well understood in non-cognitive terms, author questions whether all activities we/ goals indep.
