If Kierkegaard does not specify what the Absolute is, could one take that as any deity that they believe in? In that case, a person could have Satan as the Absolute. They could use him to kill people and cause havoc. Would it still be ethical for if the person did not try to justify his action? I just do not get how a person can follow the Absolute and kill someone and it is ethical. He uses Agamemnon killing Iphigenia as a tragic hero and being ethical. He sacrificed her as repentance for offending a goddess, and he also did it to regain her favor in the upcoming war. If that was ethical and made Agamemnon a tragic hero, does that make Clytemnestra, his wife, a Knight of Faith? Clytemnestra did not justify her reasons for killing her husband and Cassandra, his lover. So does that make her murders somehow less bad?
In this class we will ask ‘what is philosophy?’ in the hopes of defending the importance of this discipline for the individual and society. In this endeavor we shall trek through the history of philosophy while unpacking some of the major issues and problems in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, logic and politics. Furthermore we will address the perennial problems of the good life, personal identity, authenticity and social responsibility.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Clytemnestra
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