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- Title: Life, Thought, And Morality: Or, Does Matter Really Matter?(Essay)
- Author : Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 259 KB
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1. ON HOW NOT TO APP ROACH CERTAIN 'LARGE' TOPICS To ask what seems a quintessentially philosophical question: 'What is Life?' is inevitably to ask a good deal more than one might wish. It is to step into a trackless swamp where questions keep springing up from roots that spread rapidly underground. This especially 'large' question evokes, for instance, the image of a wandering Self suddenly aware its own existence. Notoriously introduced into the very heart of modern philosophy by Descartes, who famously describes himself as a self that thinks, this perplexed figure prompts two more 'large' questions: 'What is a Self?' and 'What is a Thought?'