Lecture 11

Question 1

why is despair salvation?

Answer 1

to be comfortable is the worst thing to be, no change or growth

Question 2

how does author b feel about good and evil

Answer 2

objective

Question 3

how is 1. good/evil dichotomy is grounded in my will; and 2. good/evil dichotomy is held to be objective, possible at the same time? (analogy)

Answer 3

2 planets orbiting each other at same time, so which is orbiting which?

two people can say opposing things with same empirical data

the person who wills to see the sun as orbiting earth does not consider this to be a subjective truth, this is his objective reality

the way you look at something is a matter of will

Question 4

what is author b trying to do with author a regarding good and evil

Answer 4

not convincing author a, he is trying to awaken author a to the principle of good/evil

Question 5

why does author b want author a to feel despair

Answer 5

otherwise he won’t move, he has to face reality in the eye

Question 6

what does author b mean when he says you can’t think the distinction between good and evil

Answer 6

that there is no necessary morality, only interpretations of morality

you do not see with your eyes that mural is evil, your mind applies interpretation to the events that you see

Question 7

what is the issue with saying something is good or evil

Answer 7

you are passing an absolute judgement onto something that had no necessity - you cannot logically prove that something is good or evil simply my viewing the events

Question 8

how did naturalists classify good and evil

Answer 8

yippee and yuck

Question 9

how did Hume classify good and evil

Answer 9

agreeable and disagreeable

Question 10

how do you choose what is good and evil

Answer 10

can’t prove it, it is simply what I will

Question 11

why do you will to see it a certain way?

Answer 11

because seeing it the other way caused despair

Question 12

what does either or represent

Answer 12

end of the ideology that philosophy can resolve the dispute between duty and happiness

Question 13

what is the choice between the aetsthic and ethical with regards to good/evil

Answer 13

not the choice between good and evil but the choice to see the world in good and evil

Question 14

what is an example of a non rational reason

Answer 14

dispair.

“Nothing finite, not even the whole world can satisfy the soul for one who feels the need for the eternal”

if you existentially can’t rest with that, then you need to rethink your philosophies where there is satsifaciton