Taylor
→ Acomplish Important things
→ Creativity
→ The Creativity perspective
→ The Relevance of the Myth of Sisphus
→ To accomplish important things is to engage in purposeful activity; it is to make something happen or bring something about. It is your purpose to do so.
→ You intend to do the thing.
→ To accomplish important things is to do something really good or worthwhile.
→ This thing may or may not make you famous
→ Creativity is the capacity to accomplish things because it is your very own purpose to accomplish them.
→ If it’s your very own purpose to accomplish something, you intend to accomplish it; when you don't intend to accomplish it, it’s because somebody else intends to accomplish it.
→ cleaning your room because of your parents, copycat artist…
→ According to taylor the meaning of life is to accomplish important things through the exercise of your own creativity; use your creativity for good.
→One positive aspect of this perspective is its ties to self-worth. When you perform important tasks through your own creativity, it tends to make you feel important.
→ Creativity allows for a broad range of different endeavors, which count as life’s meaning.
→ Moral things like being a leader, activist, caretaker, and resourceful
→ Intellectual things like a discovery, proving a mathematical theorem, or writing an important philosophy essay.
→ Artistic things like composing music, painting, designing great architecture, etc.
→ We might even consider hedonic things. like finding a new way to enjoy great art and inventing novel forms of creation
→ Although it is a secular perspective → could appeal to religious (theistic) people as the creation of God. (Us being the creation of God)
→ The myth of Sisyphus presents a life completely devoid of creativity (doing a pointless/meaningless activity + he’s only doing it cuz of someone else’s intentions)