Phil 170 Final Exam Questions with 100% Verified Correct Answers What is the problem that Nagel is trying to solve? - Correct Answer Problem of absurdity What are the bad arguments for thinking life is absurd? - Correct Answer 1. Nothing we do now will matter in a million years
- We are tiny specks stands in the grand scheme of things
- Correct Answer He relates to everyone's life because there isn't a point to anything. Nothing
3.We are all going to die someday How does the sense of absurdity enter our lives according to Nagel? - Correct Answer It is just there, we take it seriously but it is still absurd. We are able to reflect.Why won't it help us escape the absurd to dedicate our lives to a higher cause(Religion)? - Correct Answer Because we have consciousness, we can't escape as long as we have a consciousness What does Nagel think we should do about the absurdity of our lives? - Correct Answer we should embrace having consciousness, that is what makes us special.Why does Nagel think that suicide or defiance, and scorn are not appropriate solutions to the problem of absurdity? - Correct Answer We cannot use them as solutions because it doesn't solve the problem of absurdity and it is futile.How does absurdity enter ones life? - Correct Answer Reflection, that fact that we can think that we are conscious.What is the question or issue that drives Camus's view? - Correct Answer Does life have meaning?Does Sisyphus's life have meaning? Does absurdity require suicide?How is Sisyphus's life the model for absurdity? How is Sisyphus's life analogous to every human's life?
matters but the way we shift our mindset is the key.How does Kirilov give us the recipe for the absurd victory? Why does Kirilov think that we are gods?Why does he commit suicide? - Correct Answer Short answer: Kill himself to show that we are free 1 / 2
Answer: He commits suicide because he wants to show us that we need can't fear death because if we have fear we are not fear and it limits us to our true capable ability.In what way is Sisyphus an absurd hero? Does his life have meaning according to Camus? - Correct Answer Short answer: Shifting his perspective of his hour of consciousness so he becomes happy He determines the meaning he doesn't let the gods determine the meaning.Yes, his life does have meaning because he is conscious. He knows that he is being punished so while he is pushing that rock he is thinking about his life and being punished. Walking down, he has the room to think how meaningless his punishment is. The hour of conscious.What is the lesson about how to live in the face of absurdity that we are to learn from Sisyphus? -
Correct Answer Short answer:To reflect, to embrace, to create your own values.
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What is the problem that the Buddha is trying to understand? - Correct Answer Aimed at overcoming suffering How does the Buddha see the nature of the world? - Correct Answer Morally ordered.What does the story of the man hit with the poison arrow tell us about the Buddha's approach to suffering? - Correct Answer To focus on what's actually important.In the case of the arrow Instead of asking for the remedy, he asked who it was. That was not going to help his case of being shot by the arrow.How should we understand the First Noble Truth? What is suffering? - Correct Answer SUFFERING Suffering is... birth, illness, death, not getting what one wants. That is human lives regularly lack contentment, fulfillment, perfection, security, and the like How should we understand the Second Noble Truth? What are the causes of suffering? - Correct Answer THE ORIGIN OF SUFFERING
DESIRE
Suffering and distress are due to connecting desires (craving, clinging, attachment, impulse, greed, lust, thirst, etc) to our happiness. We are unhappy because we do not get what we desire or we get what we do not desire
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