Philosophy_Bites_The_Meaning_of_Life

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   Kapittel 1: This is Philosophy Bites with me, David Edmonds. 301s · Speaker 3

   This is Philosophy Bites with me, David Edmonds. And me, Nigel Warburton. Today we're discussing a minor, trivial, inconsequential topic, the meaning of life. It's a subject that threatens to descend into philosophical caricature, the sort …

2. 5:03

   Kapittel 2: Well, there's perhaps an irony in that, or perhaps not, but it's certainly an absurdist vision. 60s · Speaker 1

   Well, there's perhaps an irony in that, or perhaps not, but it's certainly an absurdist vision. He's saying, really, human life never really succeeds. The rock's always going to roll downhill. We've somehow got to be defiant in the face of …

3. 6:04

   Kapittel 3: So are you then saying that in the absence of hope that humanity will save itself, we have to look outward to God or some other life? 302s · Speaker 2

   So are you then saying that in the absence of hope that humanity will save itself, we have to look outward to God or some other life? Well... Perhaps I'm saying that, but I think we should beware of simplistic interpretations of religion, w…

4. 11:07

   Kapittel 4: try and push against what I think are very arrogant conceptions of humanity, like Nietzsche's, for example. 183s · Speaker 1

   try and push against what I think are very arrogant conceptions of humanity, like Nietzsche's, for example. Friedrich Nietzsche, the German philosopher, thought we could somehow create our own values by grand acts of will. It seems to me we…