Graham Priest
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386 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2020
last heard Mar 2020
Graham Priest’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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to um okay, we need some kind of central control for the mutual good, but the point is that we all come together in the social contract to make contracts with each other.
It's no
coincidence that this view of rising Western philosophy when capitalism is hitting its straps because in some sense it's just an ideological justification of capitalist practices.
It's what you need for me to justify my treating my using you.
Okay, you come and work for me, okay, I'll pay you a minimal wage, but that's okay because you do it of your own free will.
Okay, I know you if you, you know, don't get a job you're gonna die, well
No, you're a free agent.
Okay, so this is a a piece of ideology that I struck out, but it's based on false metaphysics.
People are not
They're not independent agents.
No person could live
for the first five or six years of their life.
If it weren't for their mother or father or their carers, right?
And just think about no, never mind the kid, think of the an adult.
How can an adult flourish on a desert island?
Think of all the things you do.
Which depend on other people.
Like, you know, the software you buy to record this program, like the food you buy in the shop, like the friendships you have which contribute to your life, like
Travelling on an airline to see interesting places like oh okay, the list just goes on.
You and I could not flourish without a society, okay?
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