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중요치 않은 인간의 삶 ―“언젠가는 사라질 일” 추론 연구―
최동용 중앙대학교 중앙철학연구소 2023 철학탐구 Vol.69 No.-
To show that a human life is insignificant, people often point out the fact that one day human actions and their outcomes will end. This paper explains why in showing that a human life is insignificant, it matters that one day human actions and their outcomes will end. A human being’s life has cosmic significance just in case that human being brings out tremendous value change. However, human actions and their outcomes cannot make that change because one day they will end. This is why a human life is insignificant. After introducing the time-bias account and the permanence account, this paper shows that this paper’s account is plausible in that it does not encounter the problems of these two accounts.
The Nature of Diachronic Welfare: A Defense of the Redemption Thesis
최동용 서울대학교 철학사상연구소 2022 철학사상 Vol.85 No.-
The redemption thesis assumes that how events in a person’s life are related to one another is important in evaluating the person’s welfare throughout life. In particular, according to this thesis of welfare, the fact that a person’s previous hardships contribute to bringing out the same person’s later successes, and the person would regard the hardships as having been worthwhile in light of the successes makes the person’s life better for the person herself. Recently, Ian D. Dunkle provided four objections to the redemption thesis: the intuition concern, the different redemptions argument, the downplaying hardships argument, and the reconciled irreconcilables argument. This paper examines these four objections. In particular, this paper dismisses all the objections showing that the redemption thesis bases on an appealing idea, does not consider the degree of hardship significant in itself, has plausible reasons to evaluate hardships not as serious as people think, and can successfully reconcile its synchronic and diachronic evaluations.