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Recorded on September 18, 2022.
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0:00 Intro to me and Ayn Rand’s ethical and political philosophy
3:47 Using others. Is it self-interested to rob, rape, murder?
6:50 Is it self-interested to be a dictator?
8:34 The mental effects on oneself of treating others badly.
14:44 What is a correct pleasure and why?
19:42 Is dictatorship sustainable? Machiavelli.
22:28 What’s the self-harm in treating others badly?
28:52 Different ways of relating to others
31:33 Lifeboat cases
33:37 Rights, coercion, and the mind.
42:09 Successful criminals?
45:27 Do criminals suffer mentally even if they aren’t caught? Producers and parasites–why not be the latter?
1:04:34 Pleasure and pain. Good and bad. Rape.
1:22:25 Introspection, fallibility, and the experience machine
1:27:20 Are knowledge/language/concepts/individuals social? More on introspection and fallibility.
1:47:48 Rand’s epistemology. Induction/deduction. Empiricism. Hume. The nature of “universals” and Rand’s theory of concepts.
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