PHL217H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Antinatalism
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He repeats the warning and they applaud louder. K believes the world will end amid general applause from the wits, who believe it"s a joke. Arthur schopenhauer: magnum opus: the world as will and representation, central feature of our representational faculties is principle of sufficient reason: for anything that is, theres. Influenced by kant"s distinction between appearances vs things in themselves reason/explanation of why it is. Significant break with pre enlightenment moral ideas: atheist, believes in free will and immortality only in attenuated senses, transcendence comes from aesthetic contemplation of platonic forms or a compassionate moral point of view. Like kant: appearing things can be explained totally physically: knowing all physical facts about a person, trace them all back through causal links. S- every thing in itself can also be explained metaphysically: we are creations of ourselves: the free and original will that constitutes everything, the will creates your intellect, personality-----we are genuinely responsible for our actions.
