you have just made was the best possible decision for you to make? An agent ’s relationship between responsibility and his decisions in life are affected by the alternative choices that were not taken as well as the choices that were made. Thomas Nagel believes that an agent ’s autonomy is always being threatened by the possibility of a viewpoint that is more objective than his own. His view on responsibility is such that in order to place responsibility on an agent‚ sufficient reflection about alternative
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Moral Luck Through Moral Luck‚ Nagel discusses the problem of moral luck and the conflict that arises between the common practice and intuition that most of society believes in regarding morality. Throughout his essay‚ Nagel defines intuition and the phenomenon of moral luck and claims that‚ despite having this intuition‚ people often make moral judgments about people based on factors that are beyond their control (for example‚ a drunk driver who kills a child). Nagel claims that the problem of moral
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2. Sexual bodies between nature and culture: a dualistic conception Morgan’s account filter out and problematize what he considers the most radical aspects of the analysis of Goldman and Nagel. Respectively regarding their approaches‚ in Morgan’s account sexual desire is not reduced to the unmediated bodily pleasure neither its is over-intellectualized by complex intentional and communicative inter-relation of the partners’ experiences. I argue that even if Morgan clearly gives more credit to the
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suffering‚ thereby maximizing net pleasure (pleasure minus suffering). Thomas Nagel‚ in his book Mortal Questions‚ disagrees with this viewpoint entirely saying that there is more to harm than just suffering‚ more to pleasure than momentary comfort‚ and more to death than an end to an existence. According to the hedonist‚ to be harmed you must suffer‚ that is‚ you must consciously experience a discomfort. According to Nagel‚ harm does not equal suffering. Certainly suffering is a type of harm but there
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Thomas Nagel brought up the big question. Can we know what it is like to be a bat? Nagel’s question is asking can we truly know what it is like to someone or something else rather than ourselves. Is our mind limited by our experiences that we have had personally? Not everyone shares the same experiences as everybody else. If a group of people were to witness a tragedy. Every single one of them might all show the same emotion‚ but not everyone would handle that emotion the same as everyone else around
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Life Thomas Nagel is a highly intelligent and well-respected American philosopher who wrote the short (10 chapters) introduction to philosophy‚ “What does it All Mean?” While reading this intriguing brief introduction to philosophy‚ I couldn’t help but notice how Nagel discusses a variety of thought-provoking questions and theories/ideas regarding how he believes life really is and/or how it is portrayed. For instance‚ in the chapter titled‚ “How Do We Know Anything” Thomas Nagel argues that the
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his essay‚ “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?”‚ Thomas Nagel argues against reductionism through examples of human subjectivity. Thomas Nagel argues through the subjectivity of human life and uniqueness of human experiences that the reductionist mind-body problem is false or at least unknowable at this point in time. Nagel introduces the essential problem of the reductionists as an inability to grasp the meaning of consciousness in an organism. Nagel argues that “fundamentally an organism has conscious
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Collaborative Nursing Degree Program Sexual perversions are difficult to define because sexual desire is a subjective experience. Nagel (1969) explains that understanding sexual desire is the prerequisite to understanding sexual perversions. According to Nagel‚ attraction leads to sexual desire when one finds a desirable characteristic in another. As such‚ Nagel explains that people are attracted to people‚ not features; therefore‚ transferring a feature from one individual to another leads to
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The concern Nagel is bringing up early in his book is the problem of the existence of an External World. The problem simply states that the world outside of our mind does not exist and we are living in a dream from which we cannot wake up. As humans we are innately curious and that I one of the reasons that we why question the existence of an External World‚ simply because we are inquisitive beings. However there is a deeper reasoning. We take a lot of concepts from granted in our world. All of our
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Does free will exist? Its our destiny predetermines? Do we have a choice? Did we ever have a choice? According to Thomas nagel on his book “what does it all mean?” There is a specific chapter dedicated to “Free will” in which nagel himself lays out a situation about the choice of a peach and a chocolate cake piece. He’s describing the situation and the dilemma between both choices. despite the fact that you thought you had a choice‚ that you could have the peach if you want but you made the decision
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