PHI 101 Lecture 8: PHI 101 Lecture 8
8 Mar 2017
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Cessation of illusions: the true nature of slavery is being bound/caught up by our own desires. Avidya: bad faith (willful ignorance: we can hide all this from ourselves, thinking that in our ordinary lives we are content, with our grasping at things, our attachments, our identity with our bodily existence. Ignorance (avidya) of our true nature may be bliss: but it s a culpable ignorance, we live in bad faith regarding who we really are, we"re responsible for our ignorance too. Common sense view of reality: westerners who follow the tradition common sense empiricist philosophy with find. Perception and inference: perception, direct experience of reality. Proof of god from effects to cause material world: karyat, from effect , an effect is produced by a cause, causes are of three kinds the universe must also have a cause, samavayi. Proof of god from karma: adrishtat, from the unforeseen. = bootstrapping: pulling themselves up by their own boots, reply: skepticism is self-defeating.
