AGENDA
- Reminder: guest lecture on Friday...please come!
- RR32...will be graded leniently!
- Presentation
- Weinberg, further thoughts
- Meaning maps
- Review
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Presentation
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Weinberg, further thoughts
- She seems to be assuming this is a model situation--
grow basil ... make pesto (external point)
pump gas ... drive your car (external point)
go to law school ... work as a lawyer (external point)
- Applying this model to leading a life, she discovers a problem
- Objection in the two replies
- It's a choice whether to think of your life as one big enterprise; it's not inevitable. (reply 2)
- If you do think of it that way, there needn't be an external point (reply 1)
- Back to the beginning of this class: Aristotle snow days
- there's some end to all that we do (telos)
- whatever our end, achieving it makes us characteristically human
- it's eudaimonia -- happiness, flourishing, through moral and intellectual virtue
- flourishing is HOW you live your life
- it's not external to your life
- there is no external point...and that's ok...nothing to be sad about!
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- will help you review for Exam 2
- will also help you make up your mind about meaning
- POLL
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