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10 Short Clips # 14: More Questions about Philosophy

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Channel: Gregory B. Sadler - That Philosophy Guy · 2014 · Education

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This is the fourteenth video composed of 10 short (2 minute or under) clips - no longer using old VYou footage, but rather responding directly to YouTube viewers' questions and comments.  This video addresses a set of questions and comments about various topics, thinkers, and movements in Philosophy, some bearing particularly on Political Theory

0:32 Question 1: What are your opinions on property rights, specifically John Locke's ideas of property rights?
2:46 Question 2: Should people overthrow the government?
5:06 Question 3: What makes a government legitimate?
7:15 Question 4: Who decides what is best for society, the citizens or the government?
9:24 Question 5: Where do you stand with respect to epistemology? What is your conception of truth?
11:35 Question 6: In light of the Neo-Pragmatic approach to truth championed by the likes of Rorty and Davidson, is the notion that philosophy is about 'the truth' misguided? Should philosophy serve a function more like keeping us honest?
13:45 Question 7: What are great books that teach you how to philosophize and to write philosophy?
16:00 Question 8: In your view, what makes for 'good philosophy' as opposed to stating mere opinion?
18:25 Question 9: What do you think Heidegger was trying to say that D.T. Suzuki managed to express?
20:33 Question 10: What do you think are good songs that present important philosophical concepts? How do they convey these ideas effectively?
[thanks to Devo oveD for charting out these time points]

You can see other "10 Shorts" in this playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4gvlOxpKKIi7iTK4jkqk7SzSvBhfylRn

I'm now soliciting new questions and comments from viewers and subscribers, to which I'll be responding in these higher-quality, 2 minute shorts (organized into groups of 10) -- you can leave those questions and comments on this invitation video:  http://youtu.be/98rTac5WJHs

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