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#484 - Cosmic Skeptic - 8 Impossible Thought Experiments

Modern Wisdom

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The Real Self View of Susan Wolf

The real self view of Susan wolf is that there are certain kind of things which seem to be more your real self then not. So, for example, if you tripped over and pushed me into traffic by accident, you know that that's not your fault. You're not morally responsible. If you were to just push me into traffic because you thought it was funny, well, on this view of there being no free will, you're still not morallyresponsible. But i think that that kind of behavior is more essentially springing from your nature. And so when deciding whether to be your friend, which crudely might be some kind of like social contract that we enter into to put your

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