Lucas Scripter
Biographic Data
| ID | 1402040 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucas Scripter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucas |
| FAMILY NAME | Scripter |
| SIGNATURE | SCRIPTER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9108-1525 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On technological stupiquity
Is artificial intelligence a threat to meaningful work and living? Technological unemployment and the existential challenges of a transitional era
Is artificial intelligence a threat to meaningful work and living? In both popular and academic press, concerns are often expressed that AI threatens not only people’s livelihoods but also the meaning they derive from their work. A common response to these worries stresses that the goods derived from work can be found elsewhere, often in better activities, suggesting that the proliferation of AI-powered automation does not threaten the meaningful…
Meaningful Rest
Ours is an age of incessant hustle, where resting increasingly seems like a privilege out of reach for many or else a liability to be undertaken sparingly and with discretion. In this context, we might wonder whether we have lost sight of the importance of taking a break. What place might rest have in leading a meaningful life? Unfortunately, recent philosophical theories of meaning in life have not only neglected the importance of rest but also …
Ground Projects and the Joy of Living
Masahiro Morioka has introduced the concept of “the joy of life” as an element of his critique of prevailing tendencies toward comfort and the alleviation of suffering, which he calls “painless civilization.” I argue that this concept problematizes Bernard Williams’s idea of the “ground projects” that organize and imbue lives with meaning. In light of Morioka’s analysis, ground projects cannot be the exclusive or even primary carrier of meaning i…
Meaning and beauty
What place do experiences of beauty have in a meaningful life? A marginal one, at best, it would seem, if one looks at the current literature in analytic philosophy. Treatments of beauty within so‐called “analytic existentialism” tend to suffer from four limitations: beauty is neglected, reduced to artistic production, saddled to theology, or taken as a mere application of a broader theoretical framework. These discussions fail to engage with the…
Remorse and the Ledger Theory of Meaning
A common idea about assessing meaning in life is that one draws up a list of those various positive values that one has achieved and subtracts from it one's negative deeds in life. The resulting balance is the meaningfulness of one's existence. I call this the ledger theory. Drawing on the work of Raimond Gaita and Julian Barnes's novel The Sense of an Ending, I argue for a phenomenology of remorse that gives us reason to reject the ledger theory…
Meaning in Life and the Vocation of Teaching
Meaningful Lives in an Age of Artificial Intelligence
Meaning in Life and Self-Cultivation
What Can Philosophy Contribute to Ethics
James Griffin's What Can Philosophy Contribute to Ethics? poses a bold question in its title that goes to the heart of moral philosophy's aspirations. Perhaps surprisingly, however, the answer defended in this short, lucid text overwhelmingly concerns what philosophy cannot contribute to ethics. The bulk of the book is devoted to criticizing the ‘Cartesian ambitions’ of moral philosophers, above all, the drive to ‘organize the good into a systema…
The Variety of Values
Susan Wolf's recent collection of essays, The Variety of Values, makes clear that she is a hedgehog in Isaiah Berlin's well-known sense of the term. That is, she is engaged with an overarching problematic rather than a series of disconnected inquiries. The reader is presented with a rich tapestry of interwoven motifs that offer a complex portrait of the mind of an important figure in contemporary moral philosophy. The greatest virtue of this volu…
Meaning in Life and the Vocation of Teaching
Ground Projects and the Joy of Living
Masahiro Morioka has introduced the concept of “the joy of life” as an element of his critique of prevailing tendencies toward comfort and the alleviation of suffering, which he calls “painless civilization.” I argue that this concept problematizes Bernard Williams’s idea of the “ground projects” that organize and imbue lives with meaning. In light of Morioka’s analysis, ground projects cannot be the exclusive or even primary carrier of meaning i…
The Variety of Values
Susan Wolf's recent collection of essays, The Variety of Values, makes clear that she is a hedgehog in Isaiah Berlin's well-known sense of the term. That is, she is engaged with an overarching problematic rather than a series of disconnected inquiries. The reader is presented with a rich tapestry of interwoven motifs that offer a complex portrait of the mind of an important figure in contemporary moral philosophy. The greatest virtue of this volu…
What Can Philosophy Contribute to Ethics
James Griffin's What Can Philosophy Contribute to Ethics? poses a bold question in its title that goes to the heart of moral philosophy's aspirations. Perhaps surprisingly, however, the answer defended in this short, lucid text overwhelmingly concerns what philosophy cannot contribute to ethics. The bulk of the book is devoted to criticizing the ‘Cartesian ambitions’ of moral philosophers, above all, the drive to ‘organize the good into a systema…
Meaning in Life and Self-Cultivation
Meaningful Lives in an Age of Artificial Intelligence
Meaning and beauty
What place do experiences of beauty have in a meaningful life? A marginal one, at best, it would seem, if one looks at the current literature in analytic philosophy. Treatments of beauty within so‐called “analytic existentialism” tend to suffer from four limitations: beauty is neglected, reduced to artistic production, saddled to theology, or taken as a mere application of a broader theoretical framework. These discussions fail to engage with the…
Remorse and the Ledger Theory of Meaning
A common idea about assessing meaning in life is that one draws up a list of those various positive values that one has achieved and subtracts from it one's negative deeds in life. The resulting balance is the meaningfulness of one's existence. I call this the ledger theory. Drawing on the work of Raimond Gaita and Julian Barnes's novel The Sense of an Ending, I argue for a phenomenology of remorse that gives us reason to reject the ledger theory…
Meaning in Life and the Vocation of Teaching
Ground Projects and the Joy of Living
Masahiro Morioka has introduced the concept of “the joy of life” as an element of his critique of prevailing tendencies toward comfort and the alleviation of suffering, which he calls “painless civilization.” I argue that this concept problematizes Bernard Williams’s idea of the “ground projects” that organize and imbue lives with meaning. In light of Morioka’s analysis, ground projects cannot be the exclusive or even primary carrier of meaning i…
Meaningful Rest
Ours is an age of incessant hustle, where resting increasingly seems like a privilege out of reach for many or else a liability to be undertaken sparingly and with discretion. In this context, we might wonder whether we have lost sight of the importance of taking a break. What place might rest have in leading a meaningful life? Unfortunately, recent philosophical theories of meaning in life have not only neglected the importance of rest but also …
On technological stupiquity
Is artificial intelligence a threat to meaningful work and living? Technological unemployment and the existential challenges of a transitional era
Is artificial intelligence a threat to meaningful work and living? In both popular and academic press, concerns are often expressed that AI threatens not only people’s livelihoods but also the meaning they derive from their work. A common response to these worries stresses that the goods derived from work can be found elsewhere, often in better activities, suggesting that the proliferation of AI-powered automation does not threaten the meaningful…
Epistemology (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Meaning (existential) (4 works) · Existentialism (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Meaning (existential (3 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (3 works)