PREVIEW
- Wednesday: exam
- Friday: our first presentation, also we will start talking about Nietzsche
- Next week: need Nietzsche, The Gay Science
- Week after that: we will start talking about meaning, you will need Tolstoy
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QUIZ
- feedback page
- most did well...could you do as well on other questions?
- if you didn't do well...need to make better use of class blog
- need to cover advice with specificity, not just express stoic outlook in a vague way
- stay on topic, clarify, elaborate, give examples
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EXAM 1 REVIEW
Use the workbook, add a question, use Exam 1 review page
(1) Explaining arguments
- Not just a controversial thing someone says--"virtue is the only thing that matters"
- Reasoning FROM premises TO conclusion
- Sometimes useful to set up in list form
PREMISE 1
PREMISE 2
CONCLUSION
(2) The experience machine argument
- The conclusion is that happiness is not all that matters
- Nozick says that over and over again in the readings
- Should be able to state the two premises
- OBJECTIONS
- Should understand how the objections relate to the premises
- Vitrano's escapism objection
- What would be an objection to premise 1?
(3) Eudaimonia
- Eudaimonism (Aristotle, Epictetus)
- Happiness is the supreme good, but it is NOT a feeling
- Better translation of "eudaimonia": human flourishing, doing well, the good life
- Aristotle: you have it by living an active life of reason, with virtue & also having some external goods
- Epictetus: you have it just by having virtue
- Feeling good is merely a byproduct, not what it is to have eudaimonia
(4) Arguments in Aristotle -- the PDF is helpful!
(5) Aristotle challenge -- all those virtues
- Memorize a few in the list
(6) Epictetus challenge -- all that advice
(7) Mill -- Utilitarianism vs. hedonism
- Utilitarianism: we are morally obligated to maximize total happiness for all
- Hedonism: what makes my life good is nothing but happiness
- Evil happy people...
(8) Mill -- higher and lower pleasures
- list of higher, lower pleasures
- intellect, feelings, imagination, moral sentiments
- mere sensation
- How does he know that the first sent of pleasures are higher quality?
- What is Mill saying about Socrates, the fool, the pig?
- How would Vitrano see them?
(9) Tricky things in Vitrano -- life satisfaction post
- why LS theory is better than pleasure theory
- Haybron's objection to LS
- Vitrano's reply to Haybron
(10) More Nozick points-- post
- What else matters?
- Nozick's life contour argument
