PHI 2397 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: John Stuart Mill, Egotism, Epicurus
14 Apr 2016
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10 rules to success elon musk"s: never give up, really like what you do, don"t listen to the litle man, take a risk, do something important, focus on signal over noise. 7: atract great people, have a great product, work super hard. Acion: what choice should i make, do what you think will bring the best consequences (1) (emoions, do what you think is right regardless of the consequences (2) (raionality) Consequentialism: wants, desires, diference between wants and rights. Enough money to saisfy your wants/needs (may vary according to diferent people: hedonism- pleasure seeker. This is what we want in life: feelings: based on emoions not on reason, natural: 1,2,3,4 natural numbers: enlightment in europe- 17th century to the early 19th century. Usually asked the church asked the priest. Enlightment was ime for people who decided for their on answers: jeremy bentham- 18th century english. Uilitarianism- we wanted to seek the good in life and avoid the bad.
