THE META ETHICS OF EUROPA 1) Man’s purpose is to leave the world better than he

THE META ETHICS OF EUROPA

1) Man’s purpose is to leave the world better than he entered it.

2) Man’s purpose is to bend nature to our will.

3) Man’s purpose is to question everything.

OR HEGEL’S VERSION

–“The principle of the European mind is self-conscious Reason which is

confi dent that for it there can be no insuperable barrier and which therefore

takes an interest in everything in order to become present to itself

therein…In Europe, therefore, there prevails this infinite thirst for

knowledge…The European is interested in the world, he wants to know it,

to make this Other confronting him his own, to bring to view the genus,

law, universal, thought, the inner rationality, in the particular forms of

the world. As in the theoretical, so too in the practical, the European

mind…subdues the outer world to its ends with an energy which has

ensured for it the mastery of the world. Hegel, Philosophy of Mind”–