"The Right to Your Opinion" Notes
Notes:
- Knowing your rights is useful, we could all do better at it.
- Inquiry: a seeking or request for truth, information, or knowledge.
- Author believes that "you don't really have a right to your own opinions."
- You are entitled to an opinion only when you have good reasons for holding it: evidence, sound arguments.
- Epistemic: pertaining to knowledge or the conditions for acquiring it.
- "The law gives all citizens a right to life."
Socratic seminar notes:
- Interdependence: shared authority (everyone else depends on everyone else).
- Rights create obligations.
- You have the right to your own opinions, you don't have the right to use your opinions to change the opinions of others.
- Limbic: part of your brain, the emotional part of the brain.
- Schema: routines used to make sense of life.
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