Shaw

1. The experience of the body for those who live as slaves to reality known as earth is the

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tyranny of the flesh, such as hunger, fatigue, and other bodily urges.
The experience of the mind for those who live as slaves to reality is that the mind is the
slave of the body. When the body feels hunger, you have to eat. The real body, that gets
in the way and sets the limits.
The experience of the body for those who do not live as if there is reality, is the body is
interchangeable. According to the ideas, you can have whatever the body you want, is
the body you can have.
The experience of the mind for those who do not live as if there is reality is the
superficial enjoyment of ideas. Things like beauty and love.
The experience of the body for those who do live as masters of reality is there is no body;
one chooses to live according to ideas.
The experience of the mind for those who live as masters of reality is the mind is free of
the constraints of the body. This is called the thinking will.
According to the devil, the most responsible type of life that are slaves to reality for
violence and destruction is that life is a force that strives to attain and ever greater power
to contemplate itself and it is destructive or self-destructive.
According to the devil, the type of life in hell where the life that does not live as if there
is reality is happiest.
The life that lives as masters of reality is lived by a person who lives by reason alone
because in heaven where the masters of reality live is ruled by the mind in service of life.
That life is a wealthy rich life that judges food and bad and commits itself to them.

Nietzsche
1. The experience of the body by the overman is the total of different parts coming together
to achieve a common end. For example, a sports team coming together organized and
structured to win a game. The body holds soul in contempt.
2. The experience of the mind by the overman is an eternal recurrence. Neitzsche says
every moment is infinitely repeated and the mind experiments with it.
3. The attitude towards the body of the last man is that the body seeks warmth and comfort.
It seeks satisfaction. The body holds in self contempt.
4. The attitude towards the mind of the last man is of amalgamation. There is no possibility
for genius nor individuality.
5. Shaws type that do not live as if there is reality fits best with the last man because they
both seek entertainment, contentment and warmth long life.
6. Shaws type fits bests with the overman as masters of reality because both are self-slaying
and lovers/seekers of knowledge. Both are hypocrites and are ruled by the mind in
service of life.
Camus

1. The fundamental ethical experience that Camus offers for our consideration is the plague.

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For Dr. Rieux it is that the dying dont want to die; the suffering scream in pain and for
Tarrou which is civilized premeditated orchestration of killing.
The two responses are that Dr. Rieux acts; he cures the sick even though its a never endin-self defeat. For Tarrou it is to not act, take any lives; to seek sainthood.
Tarrou falls short of being human or not a man because he does not act. Tarrou does not
act or does nothing in order to avoid indirectly contributing to taking lives by killing.
To the Nietzschen overman, the challenge offered is that of sympathy. The overman
wants war and destruction in the name of expansion, however war and destruction leads
to death and suffering, when one sees this the genuine human response is to try to stop it.
The challenge to the Nietzchen overman, of the fundamental human experience and
response does come from the last man. The last man in interested in a society where there
is no suffering.

Epictetus
1. The things that are within our power are internal goods such as our will because choose
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what we want to pursue or desire and what be avoid or abhor.

The things that are not within our power are external goods because external goods are
not ones own to begin with.
Peace of mind comes from stoic happiness, what one desires or wills happens to one,
what one abhors does not happen. Peace of mind can be achieved when we stop being
and lamenting about things out of our control.
The stoic response to the fundamental human experience is to stop lamenting over
suffering and death since the two are out of our control. One shouldnt hold ones self
responsible for the suffering, death, and ones participation in it all.
Camus respondent who claims an interest in the genuinely human response and living
would say the Stoic response is not genuinely human because there is no sympathy. A
genuine person would feel sympathy towards another. The Stoic is too easily accepts it
and adheres to the will of nature.

Augustine
1. Augustine thinks that the Stoic response to the Camusean fundamental human problem is

inadequate because it is too concerned with peace of mind and tranquility.

2. Augustine thinks that the genuinely human response to the Camusean fundamental

human problem by Camus character who is interested in the genuinely human is

inadequate because it lacks hope and faith. The genuinely human response to the
Camusean problem is concerned with the present whereas Augustine is concerned with
the next life.
Extra Credit
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According to Shaw, there are three places that are available for to the human being, they
are hell, the home of the unreal and seekers of happiness. The second place is heaven, home of
the masters of the reality, and in between the two places is earth, home of the slaves of the
reality. The human fundamental experience describes hell is beautiful, the certain kind of beauty
is enjoyment, which the body can changed, whatever the ones mind at will. One can imagine
ones own body to be. There is no body; therefore, it could be an illusion.
According to Nietzche, He says that every moment I live is infinitely repeated. The
overman agrees with this statement and the last man would disagree about this. Life as an
overman overcomes the man in contempt and self-contempt. The last mean would seek the
entertainment and seek the warmth, happiness, contentment, and a long life. In life is to drive to
expand and unify.
According to Augustine, a Christian, happiness in this life is impossible, which is
supreme good that originates in knowledge. The fundament experience is virtue, which is
the minds rule of the body. Augustines claim on knowledge on human being requires
hope and faith to live as best as possible. He says that it not the happiness in this life, but
the next life. He states that this life is incomplete, and constantly challenged. This claim,
does not originate in knowledge. This claim originates in hope, and requires faith. For
example, he uses the character use constant defeat of the suffering and death. Tarrou
choose unavoidable of killing and harming instead.