Readings + Responses

Question 1

how does Johannes react when Cordelia announces her address to the store vendor

Answer 1

turns away, does not want to deprive himself of the surprise

Question 2

how does Johannes describe his love affairs

Answer 2

creative periods, involve acquired skills (dancing, French)

Question 3

what is Johannes plan

Answer 3

1) Cordelia femininity neutralized through indirect ridicule
2) Cordelia comes close to losing it
3) she throws herself onto him
4) femininity awakes, she belongs to him

Question 4

what was the purpose of engagement for Johannes

Answer 4

engagement is ethically ambiguous, gives Cordelia the impression of barriers being broken but doesn’t require Johannes to bear more critical repercussions

Question 5

how does Johannes view aesthetic vs ethical

Answer 5

beneath the sky of aestithic, everything Is light, pleasant and fleeting

when ethics comes along everything becomes hard, angular and an unending ennui

Question 6

what is poeticizing oneself out of a girl

Answer 6

enjoy the final pleasures and remain an aesthete, passing the ethical responsibilities relationships of that stature require

Question 7

what is a requirement for love for johannesd

Answer 7

deception, all love is deception and must end in deception

Question 8

what does Johannes guarantee his girls

Answer 8

perfect treatment other than the final deception, but this is consistent with his beliefs as either the girl or the boy will be deceived in the end

Question 9

who does author a compare to don Giovani

Answer 9

hercules, reportedly slept with 50 daughters in a single night

Question 10

difference between Hercules and Don Giovanni

Answer 10

hercules loves many and it is accidental when he loves another

Don Giovanni does not love the soul but the sensual, he is faithless

Question 11

what makes Johannes a seducer but not giovanni

Answer 11

Giovanni lacks reflection and consciousness - he is a deceiver and a desirer, and that desire acts seductively

Question 12

what does author a mean by his eternal starting is his eternal stopping

Answer 12

decisions presuppose stress so author a never thinks about them and focuses entirely on maximizing the present

Question 13

hegels logic

Answer 13

inner is the outer, if a shitty painter consoles themselves with the notion that their head is full od good ideas, that claim is meaningless

Question 14

what is MacIntyres first problem with Either or

Answer 14

if we choose our ethical framework without reason, why are we bound to them? what would prevent someone with a principle in that manner from simply adopting the principles whenever he pleased and changing them whenever he pleased. If that was the case, how is this a moral framework?

How can that which we choose for no reason have any authority over us?

Question 15

What is macintyres second problem with either or

Answer 15

Kierkegaard is mixing two ideologies,

1) the (radical) ideology that people can freely choose their own morals

2) the idea that morals are universal

this is shown with the ethical, as after he has made his decision he follows the laws of a universal morality without a second glance at the aesthetic

basically the ethical version is too similar to Kant’s philosophy suggesting that if the rules of mortality are rational then they must be the same for all rational beings, which does not align with the philosophy used throughout the book suggesting that people can choose their own morality

Question 16

how does Macintyre describe morality

Answer 16

conduct of rules which are neither theological nor legal

Question 17

how does Macintyre view ethical vs aesthetic

Answer 17

not a choice of good or evil, it is a choice whether or not to choose in terms of good and evil

Question 18

difference between aesthetic in ethic in terms of past present future

Answer 18

aesthetic rooted in present, ethics bound by past and future

Question 19

what is the circulant problem

Answer 19

if someone who has not made the decision were to be presented with the choice between the ethical and the aesthetic, they would be unable to choose - if they aligned with the logic provided by either the ethical or the aesthetic then they have essentially already chosen and the base assumption of them having not made the decision yet is broken

Question 20

what do you think of macintyres first problem

Answer 20

disagree, I think people do not choose their moral philosophy based on rational reasons but rather based on upbringing and subconscious mental wiring. One could not simply rotate through moral philosophies as it would not fundamentally sit right with them. One would feel lost with themselves and the feeling of moral imbalance would ultimately be a worse outcome than the outcome of whatever shifting one’s moral philosophy was originally for

Question 21

what do you think of macintyres second problem

Answer 21

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