The Objective List View (The Weight of Things, ch. 5)

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The Objective List View (The Weight of Things, ch. 5)

The Myth of Sisyphus The gods punished Sisyphus for stealing their secrets by forcing him to push a giant boulder up a hill forever. Over and over again it rolled back down, and he was forced to start all over again.

What must we change to make his life a good one?

The Tree of (the Good) Life Relativism Absolutism Inflexible One-size-fits-all Aristotle Simple Happiness View Desire View Objective List View Cultural Relativism Extreme Relativism

Objective list view 1.ingredient 2.ingredient 3.ingredient 4.etc EACH INGREDIENT IS-- Fundamentally good (good in its own right) Relevant EACH INGREDIENT IS-- Fundamentally good (good in its own right) Relevant

Recipe for a good life A-LIST necessities MUST HAVE ALL if one is missing, life is flawed B-LIST OPTIONAL INTErchangEable if one missing, life need not be flawed

Discovering the necessities books movies examples draw on other theories thought experiments avoid cultural bias

Happiness AWESOME!!!

Is happiness always good? The happiness of bad people Sadistic pleasure

Autonomy I’M GOING TO BECOME A...

What is it & why does it matter? Being author of your own life Controlling where you live, what work you do, how you do the work, what hours you work Caroline Is autonomy important for itself or because it makes us happy?

Cultural disagreement about autonomy Arranged marriage for Hindu 8-year-old girl (do they really value autonomy less or just subordinate interests of females?) No voting or driving for Saudi Arabian women (same question) Thomas a Kempis – “Find someone to obey” Galileo’s daughter—40 years of imprisonment in convent “we have to be prepared to say that some views are just wrong” (p. 68)

Self MY OPINION IS... I LIKE... MY OPINION IS... I LIKE...

NOWHERE MAN “Doesn’t have a point of view, knows not where he’s going to” —The Beatles

Self vs. Self-expression

Cultural disagreement No-self in Buddhism Once you achieve no-self, do you really become a “nowhere man”?

Morality THOU SHALT NOT...

Why is morality necessary? Why does morality make life go better? Morality as cure for profound isolation Morality as cure for finitude Is morality valuable just because it makes us happier? Crime and Punishment

Maggie and Magic Drug see pg. 75

Happy with good things I’M FREE... AWESOME!

Constance Beethoven Land’s End fashions American Cancer Society Reads the bible Same from 21 to 81

Progress I NEED A CHANGE...

The List 1.Happiness 2.Autonomy 3.Self 4.Morality 5.Happy with good things (less certain) 6.Progress (less certain)

What else? 7.Knowledge Instrumentally valuable, but good for itself? (Hurka ch. 4) 8.Love relationships People without them (Frankfurt)

What else? 9.Achievement (Hurka ch. 5) 10.Religion 11.Having fun 12._____________

Next issues Why are these ingredients necessary? If a person can’t achieve them due to a disability, does he or she really live a worse life? Read ch. 6 for next time