PHIL 1033 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Vincent Van Gogh, Emmy Noether, Jean-Paul Sartre

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1033
• Professor: David Cunning

Document Summary

We decide what we are almost completely: values desires and beliefs are up to us. If we don"t succeed, just keep trying; it"s all on us: everything is up to us. If its not we are making up excuses. If we don"t succeed because the world or physical limitations get in our way we can choose to care about some other goal instead. Or we are so free we can just choose a different goal instead that we aren"t limited to. Or, we can just chalk everything up to our facticity (natural eye color, things that cant change) Moderate sartre a retreat from some of the more extreme positions. It"s true that we are always free to choose, but that does not mean that it is up to us how the outside world responds to us: we cant choose to just care about something.