887 – Topics

00:03 No philosophers, please: Paul McKeever. Judge: Philosophy and Freedom in the First Person, a dissertation, age-old philosophical problems unresolved, refrain from calling anyone a philosopher, everyone is a philosopher, understanding your own philosophy, solution through the First Person Perspective, problem of causation

14:45 Identity is cause: past philosophers adopt Third Person Perspective, confusing relations with entities, paradox, define your terms, metaphysics and epistemology define what ‘is’, morality and politics define what ‘ought’, book written over ten years, free will – induction – causation, an entity’s identity is the cause

29:35 Is and ought: philosophers have led to both disasters and true progress, ideas matter, life liberty property a Jeffersonian concept, paradox of ‘is’ and the dilemmas of ‘ought’, freedom is autonomy, words have meanings

46:45 Replacement: most important problems, perspective – relation – identity, not changed but replaced, continuity created by identity

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