Lecture 10 Flashcards
why can’t either/or just be both
because there will be situations where they clash
what is the absolute meaning of either or
points on one hand to truth, righteousness and holiness, and on the other to desire and susceptibility
what does author b mean by ‘your personality dissolving into many’
story in New Testament, man is possessed with demon, they ask Jesus to fix him, Jesus asks his name and he responds with legion for we are many, his personality has split into many and he has lost the unifying property of his soul
Robert johnson x eminem
‘sold their soul’, mentioned this and then immediately became famous
why is good/evil not a necessity
think of random situations, you do not think in terms of good an evil
there is no necessity for good/evil in the empire reality
you do not see evil with your eyes, you see an event and apply evil with your mind
why do people see the world in terms of good and evil if it is not a necessity
they will to see it that way
‘I think there are evil people, not because I can prove that this category is an objective category but because I have chosen to see the world in this light’
ethics by Kant
1) universal
2) necessary
what makes people change their life
despair (eminem sold their soul)
does that make good/evil subjective?
No, good and evil can be objective but you are choosing to see it from this objective lens whereas someone else may not make that choice. The reason why this view is a choice is because it is impossible to prove
wha does author b mean when he asks “can we think it” in regard to good/evil
no objective scientific truth
