HeyJaredThe Luxury of Virtue
These are PHIL courses taught by R. C. M. García at El Camino College.
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Lesson 2.5: The Thing-In-Itself (opens the original)
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What if morality itself is the best reason to believe that you are free? Topics Discussed * Kant and the Crisis of the Enlightenment * Hume's challenge to rationalism * Transcendental idealism * The noumenal and phenomenal realms * How the mind structures experience * Kant's attempt to reconcile science and free will * Analytic vs. synthetic judgments * A priori vs. a posteriori knowledge * Synthetic a priori judgments * Deontology vs. consequentialism * Freedom, reason, and moral personhood * H
Lesson 2.4: The Union Betwixt (opens the original)
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If a simple poster of human eyes or a time-crunch can hijack your moral choices without you even noticing, are you actually in the driver's seat of your own life? Topics discussed: * The Determinism Dilemma: Why escaping hard determinism into quantum randomness still leaves you without free will. * A History of Threats: How free will came under attack from ancient Greek atoms, Christian theology, Enlightenment mechanics, and modern brain science. * The Modern Problem of Free Will: The three conf
Lesson 2.3: Laplace's Demon (opens the original)
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If every event has a cause, then perhaps your next thought was written into the universe long before you were born. Topics Discussed * The American, French, and Latin American Revolutions as products of the Enlightenment * Moderate vs. Radical Enlightenment thinkers * Three explanations for historical change * How the rise of the social sciences transformed explanations of human behavior * Laplace's Demon and the idea of causal determinism * The distinction between causal determinism and hard de
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