Susan Wolf, “Meaningfulness” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Psychology
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A really revealing example that you gave to me, which resinated with me was this idea of the drugged sisyphus yes. He would still have to do it, he would still be his day job, as it were, but he would no longer feel the anguish of the pain in the boredom and all the rest of that. And rolling rocks is just the greatest thing in the worldand so this thought experiment corresponds to this idea of of taking away any intuitive objective criterion, and all of a sudden it's all very subjective. So i wanted to bring that up because to me, that was a very illustrative example, pointing to the need for some sense of objective
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